10 hours of family guy

"Turban Cowboy" Analysis,

A rhetorical analysis breaks a text down into its component parts to see how the parts contribute to the meaning of the text as a whole and its insight into the larger context. Your goal in this analysis is to demonstrate how the various aspects of a text work together to achieve the writer’s goal, and to do that you will need to consider the rhetorical situations: the intended audience, the purpose (the writer’s goal), the angle and voice, etc. For this assignment you can analyze anything that can be considered a text—a book, a movie, a TV show,

Analyze the text: Break the text down into parts—how do these parts work together to create meaning? How you do this stage will depend on what you choose to analyze, and what angle you want to take. Your analysis should also include a discussion of the author’s rhetorical strategies; in other words, who is their intended audience? What’s the author’s purpose? What is the author’s angle, and how does that contribute to the meaning of the text? Keep in mind that while authors use different strategies to achieve their purposes, you also need to be making points and evaluations about these strategies, not simply summarizing them

Prewriting

What will you analyze?

Family guy

What question can you ask to guide your analysis?

How effective is the use of minority stereotypes in comedy shows?

Consider the rhetorical situations of the text:

--What is the purpose of this text?

The purpose is to analyze the depiction of Muslims in family guy. Episode “Turban Cowboy”

--How can you connect this text to a larger context?

I’m trying to connect that the negative portrayal of Muslims in comedy shows, is actually misleads the audiences to misconception.

--Who is the intended audience? How do you know this?

Mainly teenagers and young adults.

--What is the angle? What perspective does the text take?

Family guy episode “Turban Cowboy”, explicitly depict Muslims as terrorists.

--What is the tone? How does it sound?

It’s Humor, but it reflected a negative view of Muslims.

Now, break down your text into its component parts (this may include characters, setting, visual elements, written text, etc). List all the separate parts you can identify and begin describing them (or you can a web or outline). How does each part contribute to the text as a whole? What role does each part play in answering the question you first posed?

Will you need to do any research? If so, what kind of sources will you look for?

Finally, consider your own rhetorical strategies:

--What is your perspective on this text? What kind of tone can you use to reflect that angle?

I will use retrospective tone.

--What central insight can you bring to this text? This central insight (which is most likely an answer to the question you first posed) will eventually become your thesis statement.

The negative portrayal of Muslims in family guy, is actually reinforcing the misconception in viewers.