May Day Over Moscow Narrative Analysis

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  1. Hi everyone.
  2. My name is Lauren Nita and today I'll be providing an analysis of the story
  3. mayday over Moscow. The Francis gary Powers story
  4. posted by the Central Intelligence agency.
  5. So for a quick summary in the middle of the Cold
  6. War Francis gary Powers was a pilot working for the CIA.
  7. He was sent on a mission to fly over
  8. the soviet union and gather information about their nuclear program
  9. when his plane was shot down by a soviet missile
  10. Powers skillfully escaped the aircraft and landed in a small town.
  11. He was then captured by soviet agents interrogated for weeks on end
  12. And sentenced to 10 years in a Moscow prison.
  13. However,
  14. he devised an interrogation technique where he shared
  15. just enough unclassified information to save his life.
  16. About a year later, Powers was traded back to the U. S.
  17. But he was put on trial due to the widespread accusation
  18. that he released too much information to the Soviets.
  19. Once he was cleared of accusations,
  20. Powers was named an american hero and spent the rest
  21. of his life teaching his skills to other agents.
  22. So moving on to the analysis,
  23. the main question of focus is how effective is this
  24. text at accomplishing its goals for a given audience?
  25. This can be broken into three sub questions which are one,
  26. what is the intended audience for this text?
  27. Two,
  28. What does the text want the audience to do or believe?
  29. And three does the tech succeed
  30. to answer these questions.
  31. I first looked at Sonja Fosters peace narrative criticism.
  32. To figure out the intended audience and goals of the story.
  33. A fost describes 13 features of narratives that are
  34. essential to analyzing a story on a deeper level.
  35. The five features that I utilize in this presentation are
  36. the setting characters,
  37. narrator
  38. theme and type of narrative.
  39. After examining these aspects,
  40. adviser's case, the statement
  41. using five key features of a narrative analysis,
  42. it can be concluded that this narrative accomplishes its
  43. goal of inspiring and informing its intended audience,
  44. which is composed of prospective agents
  45. and other adults who are interested in the work of the CIA.
  46. Yeah,
  47. So as I just stated,
  48. this text is written for prospective agents and other adults who
  49. want to learn more about the CIA and its missions.
  50. Two elements of Fosse's work that support this idea are the narrator and the theme,
  51. the narrator of this story is the CIA.
  52. They're portrayed as an invisible voice that never involves their
  53. point of view and tells the story from a distance,
  54. keeping a very informative tone.
  55. The narrator seems reliable as all the information
  56. adds up and never leaves the audience confused.
  57. Additionally,
  58. the narrator did not use incredibly professional language but
  59. also is not writing in the tone for Children.
  60. This shows that the text is written for interested adults
  61. that want to be informed about the CIA's missions.
  62. Yeah,
  63. as for the theme,
  64. Foss states a theme is a general idea illustrated by the narrative.
  65. After reading the entire story, I gathered that one of its theme seems to be
  66. with perseverance and courage. You can become a hero for your country.
  67. The story revolves around powers, endurance and will
  68. to stick through his mission and includes a great deal of national pride.
  69. This shows that the CIA also wrote the narrative for
  70. people who may want to follow in the footsteps of Powers
  71. which would be prospective CIA agents.
  72. The theme also tells us a lot about the narrative schools and objectives.
  73. The goals of this narrative are to inform and inspire the audience.
  74. The CIA wants the audience to feel a sense
  75. of pride that pushes them to consider serving the nation
  76. through the agency.
  77. The features that show this are the theme and the type of narrative that the text is
  78. the theme of perseverance and courage leading to heroism supports this idea.
  79. The description of powers, Perseverance was lengthy and came with great detail.
  80. Okay,
  81. this was done to inform the audience of
  82. the dangerous situations that agents are put in
  83. and how they can prevail as heroes.
  84. The theme is also set to inspire the audience to serve
  85. in the CIA by giving them a sense of national pride
  86. as stated before.
  87. Mhm
  88. Mhm.
  89. The type of narrative that the story is also indicates its schools.
  90. This is a progressive narrative which according to Foss is a type of narrative
  91. that puts events together in a way that leads up to a positive ending
  92. in this story,
  93. Powers fought through countless challenging obstacles,
  94. Baran victorious and free in the end.
  95. Thus
  96. the CIA and making this a progressive narrative shows that they want the
  97. audience to be inspired by the positive outcome in a harsh situation.
  98. We have now arrived at the final sub question in this analysis
  99. did the tax succeed?
  100. Okay.
  101. It is evident that the text was successful in accomplishing its goal for the
  102. intended audience and we can see this
  103. through the portrayal of the setting and characters
  104. first. We'll take a look at the setting.
  105. The story is said during one of the most important events in history, the Cold War.
  106. It starts in the soviet union describing the difficulties powers faced
  107. and it ends in the USa when Powers claimed victory.
  108. The setting is highly developed and detailed showing the
  109. audience the story more than just telling about it.
  110. This allows the audience to immerse themselves in the story and feel more connected
  111. which intensifies feelings and emotions.
  112. This in turn makes the text more significant and
  113. inspiring to readers.
  114. The heavy detail allows for the audience
  115. to gather more information about the mission
  116. and for the CIA as a whole
  117. setting proves that the text inspires and informs the audience
  118. as for the characters fast describes the importance of characters When she writes
  119. stories are character driven,
  120. the main character in the story, Francis gary Powers gives the text of meaning.
  121. The entire reason that the story was written was to show that Powers was
  122. a strong protagonist who fought against the
  123. soviet antagonists and the public's doubts.
  124. The portrayal of this character supports the theme
  125. of heroes and no doubt inspires the audience.
  126. Yeah,
  127. so in conclusion,
  128. the text succeeds.
  129. Due to the five key features used in this analysis
  130. narrator narrator theme
  131. type of narrative
  132. setting and characters.
  133. We can see that made a over Moscow was effective in accomplishing its schools
  134. of informing and inspiring its audience of
  135. prospective agents and other interested adults.
  136. Thank you.