the direct and indirect impact of rhetoric

The Direct and Indirect Impact of RhetoricIn the world that we live in, rhetoric always affects and is a part of everything that happens.. Celie, the main character of the movie, shows t

The Direct and Indirect Impact of Rhetoric

In the world that we live in, rhetoric always affects and is a

part of everything that happens Rhetoric, in its broadest

sense, is

communication, and how people relate to each other The movie The Color Purple

is about relationships Therefore rhetoric plays a very

important role in this

movie Throughout The Color Purple the impact of rhetoric can be seen in two

groups of people, the communicator, or rhetor, and the audience Celie, the

main character of the movie, shows the impact of rhetoric in almost every aspect

of her life The effects of rhetoric in Celie's life are

apparent through her

relationships with Mr Johnson, Shug Avery, and Sofia

The relationship that Celie has with Mr Johnson

is unbalanced

from the first time they meet Celie's complacent and gentle nature leave her

at the mercy of Albert Johnson's more dominant attitude The rhetoric that she

expresses to him, of innocence and always complying to his

orders, forces her to

live a large portion of her life sheltered and overshadowed by Albert, who

continuously beats her into submission Celie also passes on what she learned

from “Mister” to his son Harpo, the rhetoric of “the importance

of a man giving

his wife a good beating.” Albert Johnson does not even realize how important

Celie is to him until she is gone At that point he returns some

of the love

that is shown to him by helping Nettie and her family to return

to the United

States in order to see Celie This action shows the impact of

Mr Johnson's

rhetoric on Celie by returning to her the first person that she ever loved

Both the rhetoric that Mr Johnson exposes Celie to and the

rhetoric that Celie

reveals to Albert Johnson have a very important role in Celie's life in the

movie The Color Purple

Celie also shares a strong relationship with Shug Avery Celie

first meets Shug when she is drunk and has a very bad temper Celie just tries

to comfort the sick stranger in her house In this unselfish act

of kindness,

Celie's rhetoric ends up giving her the best friend that she has for a long time

Shug then returns the rhetoric of kindness and love that Celie first shows her

by writing a song to cheer her up Celie's newfound friend also teaches her how

to smile, and perhaps how to enjoy life and respect herself Shug Avery also

helps Celie discover that Nettie is writing her and where to find

the letters.

Celie's rhetoric in her relationship with Shug let her gain a new friend,

contact with her beloved sister, and rediscover a joy and purpose

to her life

Rhetoric also has a strong impact in the relationship between

Celie and Sofia After Sofia's jail sentence she is very

depressed, and Celie

helps her do the grocery shopping Showing her rhetoric of

friendship and

kindness once again, Celie shows Sofia a friend when she needs one the most At

the family dinner one night, Celie expresses her true feelings in

an outburst of

rhetoric This reawakens the spirit inside Sofia and allows her

to admit to

Celie how she helped her and that people do understand and love her Without

first affecting Sofia with her rhetoric, Celie would not have experienced the

assurance of Sofia's rhetoric in her life

Rhetoric is present in the relationships between Celie and Mr

Johnson, Shug Avery, and Sofia This rhetoric affects Celie in many ways and

from different directions Celie is affected by how she relates

to others

through rhetoric and how others relate to her through rhetoric

In some cases

Celie's rhetoric has an impact on someone else and then later works its way back

to her Mr Johnson is exposed to Celie's kindness and

friendship a long time

before he shows her some of the same respect Shug Avery is also affected by

the rhetoric of Celie before she is in turn impacted by Shug's friendship

Celie gives Sofia the assurance that she needs and then receives the same from

Sofia when she is in need of support In all of these

relationships Celie is

affected directly by the rhetoric of the other people and

indirectly by the

influence of her own rhetoric