Rhetorical Analysis

                                   By: MacKenna Riggs 

A person who was less than a week away from finishing their screenplay, stepped on a train with two members from a growing activism movement called Effective Altruism. Holly Morgan and Sam Hilton were the two members from EA met on the train. This person who was finishing their screenplay decided to join them on their trip to East Devon to finish their script, and because they wanted to learn more about the EA goal of being a better person. Hilton and Morgan were asked if they thought art would improve the world. Hilton disagreed that art would improve the world. EA is for improving the world, and someone is trying to convince the members of EA that art can make the world better too. There are lots of different ways to make art like painting, screenplays/ movies, drawings. 

One of the main points of the chapter is to prove that art can improve the world, just in a different way that the members of EA are trying to improve and help the world. “Rodley pointed out that the U.S. TV series Will and Grace might have made some American’s more accepting of gays.” (Emerging. Pg. 326) 

With this piece of evidence they’re trying to prove that some forms of art can improve the world. This TV series alone changed the way the world views gays in society. This helped prove the screen player’s point of view to the members of EA that art can change the outlook on different things, and that it could improve their movement if they incorporated an artist so that their movement could be seen visually. 

This is a clear piece of evidence that shows how art can improve the world’s view on different topics like race, LGBTQ, and how it could benefit their movement because there are people who enjoy art and would prefer to see things presented by art in whatever form that may be.