Relationship with an Audience

In the two essays that we were instructed to read, both of them were writing about very different topics and therefore they both have very different audiences. The first essay by Knier is about himself going to best buy and marveling in all the technological goodness. For his essay, his audience is easily distinguished. It is most obviously everyone that either intends or happens to stumble across his page. His word choice is simple and his tone is humorous. For example, his last line of his paper is "Anyone want to buy a tv?" (Knier, 198). He wants a good grade from his teacher, but at the same time he wants to be able to get his message across to students who he thinks will read his page on his online portfolio. Overall, I'm not really entirely sure what he actually is trying to say, since for the most part it is just him rambling on about TVs. Apart from trying to explain a personal interpretation of the capitalist market that is Best Buy, there really is no other substance or deep meaning behind what he writes. Therefore, it is perfect for anyone to pick up a copy of his paper and read about his story and have a full understanding while enjoying it at the same time. His story is unique, however, which makes it an interesting read and also why it was put into the textbook. 

Now when I say that Trask writes a completely different article, I mean it in the most dramatic way. Her tone in the paper is neither lighthearted or enjoyable. At the most extreme, it is a demeaning and blaming piece of literature on the American government. As if we didn't already have enough problems, now the Hawaiians are mad. It almost seems like an oxymoron (mad Hawaiians), but that is the specific stereotype that Trask speaks out against. "This latest affliction has meant a particularly insidious form of cultural prostitution...Mostly a state of mind, Hawai'i is the image of escape from the rawness and violence of daily America Life" (Trask 189). Though only an excerpt, her tone is angered by the hardships mass tourism and colonial America has put onto to them. As a native Hawaiian, her audience is more specific. I believe her essay is meant to cater more towards the other native Hawaiians as an informative piece, or to politicians that could potentially help to end the hardships the Hawaiians are currently experiencing. This is vastly different from the aspect of Knier's essay, which is so much more simple and (dare I say it) exciting.

Now onto the movies. These movie trailers are different for the most obvious reasons. One is a comedy and one is a drama verging on a political statement of the Victorian Era (which it is considering that it is a book written in those times). The fact that the two movies are separate genres is enough to say that they have different audiences. Bride and prejudice is for everyone (or at least everyone remotely interested in seeing the movie) while Pride and prejudice is more of a chick flick. I know this to be true about the latter, seeing as I am a guy and I have absolutely no interest in seeing that movie, and the only way that I will see it is through a woman dragging me to the theaters or couch and making me sit and watch what I think is a awfully boring movie. I am not saying that the movie itself is bad, I am just more or less makeing a point. The intended audience is NOT me. The intended audience is (I am assuming) a female ranging from age 16 and above. 

Bride and prejudice, however, strikes me at a completely different angle. Apart from it being a spoof of the more formal movie (they even use the name Mr. Darcy), they put it in the present, use an Indian family where the idea of finding a husband for a daughter is still acceptable, and finally add lots of dancing (Indian style). This is movie that I would want to see, considering the flamboyant indian dress and the crazy dances that are performed. The trailer itself had me laughing, and the title affirmed my notion that the movie was in actuality, a spoof of the drama noted earlier in the paragraph. It would be safe to assume that this movie is for everyone who wants to see a goofy movie about falling in love.