Time is changing, but the issues of the past remain to prosper. As society moves forward from the past to the present-day, issues concerning with human rights are becoming interconnected between nations. As more and more citizens of the North Korea succeed in running away, their stories are being heard by the world. From their perspective, they are able to interpret certain issues that remain in the world outside North Korea. In creation of the magazine interview, a fictional character, Mi Na Hwang, is based on a real life North Korean defector, Hyeonsoe Lee. The purpose of the Rhetoric in Practice project is to raise awareness of how society continues to oppress the people by controlling freedom to think in today’s world. While the magazine interview serves as a medium for the readers, it also complies with a series of questions and answers, which directly clarify research findings. Concerning with an issue of society scraping …show more content…
For instance, the interviewee relies back in a friendly manner when she expresses, “freedom outside North Korea is like listening to songs really loud and eating till you can no longer zip up your pants without being in constant fear.” As cited, she talks in a certain way as if she is talking to a friend. The purpose of using casual language is to deliver the pathos in a nonchalant way for the readers’ convenience of understanding the victim’s past. I further extended this approach when the interviewer executes the questions based on interviewee’s reply and with the use of “I” and “we” to emotionally connect with the victim. This approach is used in opposition to the traditional interview questions like, “In America, there's been hope that the new regime in North Korea will change things. What is your opinion?” (Krainin). By presenting the tone of the interview in engaging and personal ways, I am shaping the genre of my project through the use of