Rhetorical Analysis Of Fast Food Nation

Fast Food Nation Rhetorical Analysis

In the film “Fast Food Nation” there are some obvious goals here. This film gives you an insight of what a fast food corporation is really like, and how they aren’t as great as they seem to be, as well as the problem with illegal immigrants coming over to America, being token advantage of, and mistreated. This film tries to make you more conscientious of what is going on behind the closed doors of America’s fast food industry. Don, who is Mickey's hamburger chain marketing director who helped develop “The Big One”, is sent to Cody, Colorado to inquire about the meat being tainted at the UMP packaging plant. The writer, uses some rhetorical appeals, as well as some common topics in order to make these points.

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Don Anderson goes to his friend/associate Harry to inquire about the problem. The writer uses Cause and Consequence here to get his point across. Harry seems to be a credible guy at the beginning of the scene, but you can see him start to turn into a bad guy as the scene progresses. Harry mocks the situation, Don said, “You know they have un-trained people working at the gut table?” which could be a possible factor of the tainted meat. He also said “Your test say that the meat we’re getting from UMP is clean, it’s not, I’ve seen independent test that say it’s not”, Harry goes on to not deny the facts of which Don presented to him, but expresses to Don that nothing illegal is going on and the meat is perfectly fine because it is being cooked with “grills that are calibrated carefully to make sure it kills every little bit of the bad stuff.” Harry already knew that the meat was actually tainted. By using the common topic appeal the writer made it possible for the audience to infer that the factory is not functioning right; consequently, making the meat inedible, but they are still selling it