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Rhetorical Analysis Of Coca Cola

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Throughout the course of this essay a rhetorical analysis will be performed over the subject of the popular soft drink, Coca Cola. Here we will take a look at two documents, both advertisement images, both from Coca Cola, separated by over 40 years. This sweet drink took the world by storm starting in the 1890’s and has been a household name since. With hundreds of thousands of soft drinks all over the world, Coca Cola is just another in a bucket, except with a different set of tactics toward drawing in their consumers. In 1971 The Coca Cola would come out with a slogan and ad that would spread across the world like a wild fire. In this image we observe a collection of 7 images, 1 in the center and 6 surrounding it creating a border. There’s something peculiar about these pictures when looking at them though, each contains at least 2 people. Displayed are friends, family and couples, out and about living their lives, all are young, and at the very heart of the image, two bottles of Coca Cola, dripping with condensation, reading its classic slogan “It’s the real thing”. There are a couple of groups that this type of ad seems to really connect with and sink in. The first being the young, the reckless and those longing for love. Then there are those who want to feel that way, again. An older person in their 70’s and has recently retired, sees this ad, days of their youth would flood back in. This image captures the present and the past for both parties. Something else about this ad is interesting, as mentioned earlier, each of these young people are with one or more other person. Companionship or comradery is something all people search for, no matter the person, no matter how deep the introvert, people seek people and people seek to be accepted. The pull is there in this ad, “If you’re cool you’ll drink Coca cola” So really this ad is speaking and aimed toward a wide range of people from the young to old, and from those looking for friends or someone to be more than a friend. The media and design in the ad helps The Coca Cola Company take on the deeper parts of a person to get to its purpose. They do this by creating an image with the aforementioned pictures collaged together to focus the attention of the

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