Czarnecki, Matthew RHETORICAL ANALYSIS PRACTICE
A link to the meme: https://miro.medium.com/max/800/0*vk9pxqOyne0DO9Lp.jpg

The author is currently unknown to me, I can’t find his/her profile; additionally, this image is a meme that I found on google images which has many versions. Memes are used as a visual, often comedic, statements on topics, often, of social issues. The target audience would thus be young adults in the United States. But because this is a meme about a social issue provides some insight about the original creator. He is more likely than not a politically active teenager or young adult, in particularly, one who might hold more of a right leaning democratic to a conservative ideology viewpoint, due to the fact that, he’s correlating evil with the urge of social justice, something democrats and liberals tend to hold a more intense and supporting of opinion.
A little background for those not familiar with the original Star Wars; the hooded figure engulfed by darkness is Darth Sidius, and to sum it up quickly, he is the essence of evil that rose to the highest rank of political power in the Republic and basically destroys it and implements a new regime under his dictatorship control, all while hiding the fact that he is the leader of the evil group. And everything goes from ok with manageable bad to uncontrollable bad, 6 movies worth of bad to fix.
The author is attempting to portray that the movement for social justice is being used as a cover for a hidden motive of destroying the Republic of the United States from the inside out. He does this by mirroring the movie’s fictional character, Darth Sidius, methods of working subtlety with the use of political actions to the current situation.
I would say the genre is of a horror type due to the “uncertainty” surrounding the evil and violence surrounding this character and what he achieves in the movie. And the author’s mirroring of it to what happened/ is happening within the United States where certain persons used social justice as an excuse and create violence, with a possible hidden goal maybe puppeteered by a yet unknow figurehead in power. Through these correlations he uses ethos to attempt to fear his intended audience about real life situations that have been/ are being encountered in the United States.

