Audience Analysis

I have learned a lot in the last week about my fellow composition I classmates by having everyone in the class ask questions to others and answer questions about ourselves. I learned that there are quite a few married people in my class, some with children and some without. My question asked about what kind of pets the others in my class have and if they wanted any others and I thought it was super interesting seeing how many people had no pets at all as I was raised around pets. I’ve always had at least a dog and now I have three. There were several more serious questions, such as biggest fear which I really felt let everyone in the class inside of our minds a little more. Most people won’t be honest in a class setting and will just give a generic answer or whatever answer was common in the classroom, but it seems as though everyone in the class was comfortable being totally honest. It’s only hard to be open in public because everyone is always afraid that someone else is judging them and waiting for their response to be a “bad” one. This one question really made everyone open up and I love that. I was really excited that someone thought to ask about our favorite quotes. I’m really not a reader, I’m not at all interested in reading and it’s super hard for me to really get into anything I read whether it’s for pleasure or for assignment, but I do have a favorite quote and I think being able to see everyone’s favorite quote tells you a lot about a person. A person’s favorite quote tells you whether they are more interested in religion, politics, happiness, sadness, whether they are going through a hard time or whether they are doing amazing and their life is right on track. It may seem strange, but I think the favorite quotes question will be the most helpful for me when choosing how to say things to my audience.