Citizen Kane Rhetorical Analysis
The timeline of Citizen Kane is anything but linear. The film begins by showing us the last moments of Kane's life. Consequently, almost everything after that point is comprised of multiple flashbacks and first hand accounts of his life. The only exception to this is the timeline of Thompson, a reporter finishing a new-real on Kane, as he travels around asking the people closest to him for their accounts in the hopes of understanding Kane's last word, Rosebud. Thompson eventually gives up on figuring out Rosebud because no one can offer any "useful" information, the viewers just end up realize what Kane went through and what it did to