Rhetorical Analysis
As children are growing older they will always experience some if any interaction with any type of games in their lives. Having a way that shapes the challenges that you face in your life will help you with many things that you have to face and make it much easier to deal with because you’ve had the experience with problem solving. The Game of life or also known as LIFE is a board game that focusses on real life situations that people face in their lives. It is basically a stimulation of a person life and the choices that they make during it. This is a game is recommended for the ages of nine and up. Players earn and lose money as they play and must have a specific amount of money at the end of the game to get a specific amount of money at the end of the game to get the best possible outcome. It is required to have two to six players. The players must spin a numbered wheel to advance on the track that they travel that is numbered 1 through 10. Each player gets a small plastic car with holes to place the people pegs and it is either blue, red, green, yellow, white, or orange. There will be people pegs added to the car when you are married or have any children. Each space has a player performing a different action that relates to important life issues. You can decide to go down one of two paths: College or Career.
This is how the game gets rolling and once you pick your path to take then you spin to see what space that you go to. The college path is to help you later in the game to get a better and higher paying job. The career path allows you to just skip college and go straight to finding a job. It is a fun game to play but has serious parts about it that relate more to real life like choosing to go to college and things that have to deal with finances. You do good deeds to get Life tiles and to earn money. There spaces on the board are all colored differently that all have separate meanings. The green spaces symbolize pay day while the blue are optional spaces. This a very complex game that has a lot going on and you really have to concentrate to understand to play it. It is so complex because it is so comparable to a real life and that’s what makes this game so relatable.
The Game of Life is such a popular game to play because I think that it gives people the opportunity to have different ways and decisions in life. This game gives the impression to the people playing that it reflects and feel like the real aspects of life. There are many things that can be learned while playing this game. It teaches the people learning that you are not in control of your own destiny and that if you have more than others than it makes you feel better about yourself. This comes by with getting a better job or having more money than others. Everything you have can be lost in such a short amount of time. Everything learned in this game is related to the things that happen in people’s real lives.
One of the most important things that you learn while playing is how to earn and spend money. It is an essential element in this game and in real life situations. The game teaches you that all great things in life cost money and that you will always have the opportunity to spend money on things that you don’t need. It shows the consequences of what happens when you spend too much and too often on things that you don’t need. This is practical skill that is important for people in the real world to understand outside of just playing the game.
It is easily one of the most known and popular of board games. According to Wikipedia, it is America’s first popular board game. The Checkered Game of Life was created in 1860 by Milton Bradley and 100 years later redesigned by Reuben Klamer who was a toy and game inventor for The Checkered Game of Life’s 100th year anniversary. They created the first modern version of The Game of Life so it has been around for a long time. It is one of the first 3D board games and one of the first to use a plastic spinner. It has been published in 20 different languages. There have also been many different versions of this game that have been made such as Monsters Inc, Star Wars, Pirates of the Caribbean, and Spongebob Squarepants. There are a total of 30 different versions of this game. It is such a popular and important game that there is a copy of it in the Smithsonian Institute’s National Museum of American History.
The Game of Life doesn’t tell you what to value and that is an important aspect of real life, but if you know what you value in your real life, you will be satisfied with what you have. Real life is a mess and a lot of it is out of your control. You may not get what you want but you can definitely make the best with what you have.
