Open Letter Goals and Outcomes

Statement of Goals and Choices

My goal for this open letter was to make the readers realize, right from the start, it’s not meant for “the man on the moon,” but understand, without me saying it, why I would choose to address it to him. My ultimate goal is to show clearly that all of us need to see the world in its entirety as well as how rapidly it is changing, because only then will we realize that we have to think not only locally but globally as well. I recently opened a fortune cookie and the little slip of paper inside said “No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible,” and I thought that cannot be any truer as it is with my message here. I attempted to embed within this letter all the rhetorical methods hitting all hearts, minds and persons with it. I showed how we may not always see all of these things happening all the time, but all the time they are happening all around us and that we have effectively made it all happen. I made my topics broad and made you see it from a bird’s eye view to emphasize the spanned of it. But despite that, these things hit home for a lot of people not just the ones they directly affect, since we all live here and not on the moon. Only in an open letter to the world using this view could I make this point without taking the pointing finger position.

When I first starting thinking of what I should write about and who to write to I thought to write to my mother who I have not seen in a very long time. But to be honest, I decided against it because I didn’t want to write something so “Emo.” Then I thought about writing to the EPA but thought that was the opposite of who I wanted to truly address. Next I thought of writing NASA but again thought that would narrow my audience and knowing my writing style may make it too much like fiction for so deadly real this topic is and should be for everyone. So as I stared up at the sky while attending a concert and the moon rose from behind the stage the idea hit me because he was literally starting me in the face and I just had to ask him what he saw.