Convergences (Week 2 Blog)

After reading for this blog I understand the meanings of message, method, and medium. I have never really thought about how these go into our everyday lives. Everything has a meaning, whether it has to do with art, advertisement, or even the way we talk to someone. The next time I look at a painting or picture, watch a commercial, or hold up a conversation I will ask myself what is the point? How is it being delivered to me? Also, why is this message being delivered to me? I will look at everything differently because I now know questions I can ask myself to make life more interesting! When reading the "Will You Marry Me?" section of the reading came up I kind of stumbled upon because there are so many different variations that you can ask someone to marry you and there are so many reasons of why someone would ask you. Some situations are harder to depict then others but that's why I had read it twice because I had trouble understanding it.

When it comes to understanding texts and the audiences, purposes, and contexts come in all different ways, especially audiences. Audiences can range from race to age to religious views. And when someone takes a picture, paints a painting, or makes a show they are directing it toward to a certain audience or audiences. There so many critics out there and they put down these things because they might not be directed toward this certain critic, so people who criticize shouldn't until they know the audience it is being directed toward. Sometimes the purpose of something may not be particularly clear to everyone, but that may mean they are to young or to old or not from around that area. If I were to go somewhere out of America I may not get the humor of the place I'm at but it wasn't directed toward me. That leads me to context. Context is exactly what I was talking about with leaving America, it's where something was originated. This is my feelings toward the reading!