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'A Rhetorical Analysis Of Over The Hedge'

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The author of Animating Revolt and Revolting Animation, Judith Halberstam, uses rhetorical strategies to speak to her point that animated movies can be used to reach a wide ranging audience to convey deep underlying messages in a way that is entertaining for all. The author points out how Pixar movies brings non-traditional characters to life and faces them against real life struggles but does so in a happy ending manor that captivates audiences. This is accomplished by the author introducing a plot line from a Pixar movie that illustrates a struggle or classic battle and then describes the characters that are in the struggle and how they live through it. The author then describes an actual real life struggle and relates it back to the animated movie. Judith Halberstam points out that the movie Chicken Run illustrates how aggressive industrial businesses maximize profits above anything else or businesses that have a partnership between owners and workers to maximize profits. “What are we to make of this Marxist allegory in the form of a children’s film” …show more content…

In this case, this movie shows simple folk who are invaded by modern society. “When the creatures awake from their hibernation they discover that while they were sleeping, a soulless suburban development stole their woodland space and the humans have erected a huge partition, a hedge, to fence them out” (Halberstam 10). For the creatures who lived in the woods that were taken over by the humans, the simple life is replaced by fast moving, wasteful and irresponsible people. These animals had to adapt to the changes in their new environment, food choices, new creatures, and relationships with those creatures. They had to work to outgrow their title of “vermin” given to them by the humans by proving that this was their territory and they were not going to let it be taken away from

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