Literacy Log Rhetorical Analysis 3
In my lit log, one of the most frequent things that I wrote about was looking at the clock. I was constantly checking the time—even when I had nowhere specific to be. It seems as though our lives are attached to and run by the clock. We are constantly living our lives according to the time, which also makes me think of life as rhetorical; life is the rhetorical situation of all situations. All situations are encircled by the concept of life. The rhetors of this gigantically complex situation are all of the things, peoples, or ideas that influence anything we do. Things, as rhetors, convince and promote ideas not in the sense that they can speak, but in the sense that they generate ideas in people through their existence. The people that surround us influence the way we act and the principles that we each, individually inherit and live by. We, as people, are the audience of life and what life has to offer. We are the ones being convinced to go through life and live it as the rhetors have suggested or influenced in us. The exigence of life is, at its simplest definition, to live and survive.
What I find to be the biggest constraint on the situation of life is time. The clock. It can be seen as a positive or negative constraint depending on where we are or what we’re doing. It poses limitations at times but can also work to our advantage. Time, though, is always there. It is a constant in life that drives us further and further toward the end of our lives without pause. It constrains the way we choose to live and how we deal with everything. If time doesn’t allow it, we simply don’t do it. At times when we may feel that we are running out of time or when we feel that it is moving too quickly, we attempt to pick up the pace in order to keep up with how rapidly our lives are flashing by. Most people feel that they need to make the most out of life and the biggest constraint on that idea is time. We live our lives according to time, and time doesn’t wait for anyone.
