Skylar Winberry 23-3-17

Today in class, we discussed SOAPSTone more. We focused on Occasion, Audience, Purpose and Subject. We then applied each letter of SOAPSTone to a art of Lin Manuel Miranda's 2016 Tony speech. We said that occasion can be separated into two sections: 

• Immediate occasion → why now → what's happening that prompts the writing
• Greek word kairos→ timing and location
• Larger occasion- what's happening in the world right now that prompts the writing.

The lines where this applied were:

• We lived through times when hate and fear seemed stronger;
• And love...cannot be killed or swept aside.
• Now fill the world with music, love and pride.

Then we defined what the Audience means.
We found many audiences in the sonnet such as: Vanessa (his wife), his peers, and the LGBTQ community.

• To whom is this directed
• What are the characteristics of this person/group
• How does our audience change our text?
• Appealing to different people in different ways

Purpose was described as

• Why? What does this text do?
• Emphasis on verbs- to critique, to embrace, question, to grieve, to mourn, to honor, to blame, to comfort, to antagonize, to entertain, to ????

And examples from the speech were purposes like: to honor, to help others, to thank his wife, to inspire, and to mourn.

Lastly, we said that the Subject(s) are what the piece is about and that

• You should be able to condense the topic into one sentence (or less)
• Start simply then SPECIFY
• War? What about war?
• Money? What about money?

They are meant to build upon the purposes you have already found.

Here is a link to the speech if you would like to hear it yourself.

https://youtu.be/pAG_7qeiOZA