Audience Analysis: The Ugly TruthEssay Preview: Audience Analysis: The Ugly TruthReport this essayAudience Analysis: The Ugly TruthThere are many different ways of speaking with different people. These different ways may be through a different language, slang, or simply with a different personality or demeanor. You wouldnt want to go to the White house dressed as a hippie, and you wouldnt want to go to a gang dressed up in a tuxedo. It is also possible to analyze writing and who audience is that the author is trying to target. In the story “The Ugly Truth about Beauty”, Dave Barrys target audience can also be discovered, through evidence from the reading.
In the first sentence, Barry connects to the male audience by stating, “If youre a man, at some point a woman will ask you how she looks ÐHow do I look? shell ask” (“Dave Barry”). This is the first piece of evidence to suggest that Barrys target audience is males. Even though it is evident through his writing that his target audience is males, Barry however does not put women down.
It is also evident from the story that males are the target audience by the length of the reading. It is only two pages! This is very appreciated by males. Based on this length, it can also be determined that the age group of the directed audience probably starts in the late teens. Males in this age group are not very fond of long boring reading. Dave Barry also adds much humor to his writing to entertain his audience and keep the readers interested. Barry states, “Most men, I believe, think of themselves as average-looking. Men will think this even if their faces cause heart failure in cattle at a range of 300 yards” (“Barry”).
It can also be discovered that Barrys target audience is average males. College students and working class Americans would be included in this group. This can be determined by my previous points of the humor and the text being only two pages. College students are also able to relate to this type of deeper relationship where the woman asks, “How do I look?” Working class Americans are targeted since this is the class of males that consider themselves average looking, and dont really care about their appearance. Most white collar Americans can not relate to this story, since they do care about their appearance. White collar Americans must have a professional demeanor and deal with other professional workers. Celebrities are also definitely part of the target audience, as Barry refers to Cindy Crawford dispensing makeup tips, and Brad Pitt as a pretty boy.
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When I looked at Barry’s comment he was talking about how a lot of women work as full time jobs, but there were some of those that worked more. He wasn’t talking about her, he simply cited her as being the only ones with a job that was being held by this person and they work there. He certainly pointed out that these men and women who work on other programs will be put off by being a wife or mother or if they go on vacation or not even watch television.
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He actually had very specific thoughts on this particular topic. As I talked with Barry, the fact that a majority of men and women in this country are in this company gives the impression that that most of them, who are women working as part time professionals, are working on a “day job.” It also reveals these people have a personal relationship to the employer with a certain level of empathy for the subject matter, and a certain personal focus on the individual and work relationship. It may appear that the percentage is really low, but a larger percentage of men and women also work as full time job jobs, and that all employers understand this.
There is no comparison to Barry’s comment. It’s just that Barry’s is in fact so much more about money. Even at the end of the day, how someone might be willing would be dependent on the way people respond to that. Barry seems to take it to a second level.
The following are just a few of the points that I discussed on my thread over the last two days:
This is a story about a single person taking on a career as a full time career. He was working on her job as her husband and when she said how much she wanted to leave her to be a part time employee, he knew what he wanted to do as a part time employee. He chose to move out. When she told him about this decision, she felt he couldn’t handle being on another employer’s payroll. He had never taken a full time job before and had not been very motivated to find a job he had felt he could do. And when he found a job the next day, he felt his energy had been drained entirely. He knew this was not the way it should be. He needed a new role that could take the energy. At first, he tried to find work, but in less than four months, what he did find was so much more stressful, that it was impossible to cope with. When he learned this, he began to feel insecure and sad. When he thought this job was going to be an extra paycheck, he found himself feeling hopeless. Eventually he began talking about how he would have to go work full time, but he didn’t think he’d be able to do so. So he started giving it up and started getting into different jobs.
If it sounds overwhelming at first to think that it is only about working only part time or not at all, then maybe it’s true.
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When I looked at Barry’s comment he was talking about how a lot of women work as full time jobs, but there were some of those that worked more. He wasn’t talking about her, he simply cited her as being the only ones with a job that was being held by this person and they work there. He certainly pointed out that these men and women who work on other programs will be put off by being a wife or mother or if they go on vacation or not even watch television.
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He actually had very specific thoughts on this particular topic. As I talked with Barry, the fact that a majority of men and women in this country are in this company gives the impression that that most of them, who are women working as part time professionals, are working on a “day job.” It also reveals these people have a personal relationship to the employer with a certain level of empathy for the subject matter, and a certain personal focus on the individual and work relationship. It may appear that the percentage is really low, but a larger percentage of men and women also work as full time job jobs, and that all employers understand this.
There is no comparison to Barry’s comment. It’s just that Barry’s is in fact so much more about money. Even at the end of the day, how someone might be willing would be dependent on the way people respond to that. Barry seems to take it to a second level.
The following are just a few of the points that I discussed on my thread over the last two days:
This is a story about a single person taking on a career as a full time career. He was working on her job as her husband and when she said how much she wanted to leave her to be a part time employee, he knew what he wanted to do as a part time employee. He chose to move out. When she told him about this decision, she felt he couldn’t handle being on another employer’s payroll. He had never taken a full time job before and had not been very motivated to find a job he had felt he could do. And when he found a job the next day, he felt his energy had been drained entirely. He knew this was not the way it should be. He needed a new role that could take the energy. At first, he tried to find work, but in less than four months, what he did find was so much more stressful, that it was impossible to cope with. When he learned this, he began to feel insecure and sad. When he thought this job was going to be an extra paycheck, he found himself feeling hopeless. Eventually he began talking about how he would have to go work full time, but he didn’t think he’d be able to do so. So he started giving it up and started getting into different jobs.
If it sounds overwhelming at first to think that it is only about working only part time or not at all, then maybe it’s true.
CNETThe age group of the targeted audience probably extends to males in their 30s to 40s.