Faythe's Peer Review for Herself

Peer Review for Faythes Rhetorical Analysis of the song "Skin."

1. Yes, the thesis is presented clearly. It is “in their song, ‘Skin,’ Rascal Flatts uses a touching story to show that hope can be found when facing painful and sorrowful times.” It could go either way, but with some small adjustments it could clearly be seen as dealing with rhetoric. The argument of the text has been identified. It is that when facing hurtful and sorrowful times hope can be found.

2. a. The writer uses several examples from the text and video to provide support for their argument.

“When they talk about how Sarabeth’s bruise ‘just won’t go away,’ the reader can almost feel the fear…”

“In the line, ‘the doctor just told her the news,’ they don’t use good or bad, but keep it neutral.”
“…hope with phrases like ‘gonna take care of you’, the therapy is ‘the strongest there is’ and ‘we caught it in time.’”

“…images such as dream, ‘without any cares’, dancing, first love and soft wind.”

“The phrase, ‘it would be a mistake for someone to take a girl with no hair to the prom’”

“At the very end, a small clip is shown as Sarabeth and her date are leaving.”

b. I found at least two items the writer could analyze.

The very last line of the song, “she isn’t scared.” In all the other choruses, the words, “and for a moment,” are in front of the phrase, but not in the last line.

Also, analyzing the scenes the band is in and the background may be helpful.

c. The analysis of the video is short in proportion to the analysis of the text.

3. The writer describes how each example relates to pathos or logos. These descriptions help to support the thesis. The writer takes the feelings of isolation that are prevalent in the beginning of the text and shows how the character is rid of these feelings at the end. The writer could further analyze the video and the last line of the song as I described before.

I’m just figuring out that reviewing your own work is really hard. I’m not really sure what could use more analysis, but I’m open to and welcome suggestions.

4. It’s hard to imagine that I could ever go through something as awful as a battle with cancer, but the worst part would be if I started chemo and actually lost my hair. That “proof” that this was actually happening, confirming all my fear, would probably bring me to my knees and I don’t know if I would be strong enough to get back up again. These feelings and that image are what stuck with me as well as being the most vivid image.