Game of Thrones and Kairos?

 How the Ancient Rhetorics for Contemporary Students text is written reminds me of how my dad speaks. He is a lawyer, so when he talks he makes sure to cover every angle of a topic, no matter if it is necessary. In terms of the text—every angle is very thoroughly discussed, much like how I'd imagine a rhetor to talk or for that matter my dad. Side note: I am really loving the use female pronouns in this text—the only other textbook that I have read that uses female pronouns was another textbook written by women about sociology.
Context-wise: chapter two discusses the rhetoric device Kairos. Kairos is used to describe how important timing can be for any rhetor. The topic of discussion was a little dense for me so the best way for me to learn what the text was talking about was to translate what Kairos meant into the Game of Thrones universe (spoilers).
In the HBO series, Game of Thrones there are many plots and subplots to follow. One of the main plots that every character seems to ignore is the huge herd of Whitewalkers (snow zombies for those of you unfamiliar with the show) on the other side of the Wall (think Great Wall of China) threatening to break-through and kill the population on the other-side. All of the characters ignore this because it is not relevant to them—they cannot see the potential harm that these Whitewalkers can inflict on them. Once the Whitewalkers actually break though the Wall it will become relevant and people will then discuss the issue at hand. Meanwhile, characters are more busy discussing and fixing issues that are more relevant—this is essentially what Kairos is. Instead of discussing things that will be problems or have always been problems—Kairos is discussing topics that are problems right now. Relevant problems in the Game of thrones universe may be the fact that Kingslanding is broke or that someone just assassinated the king.

So what does Kairos mean to us now? How can we use this device? Well, we first have to keep up on what is relevant in culture. I used Game of Thrones to describe Kairos. In my description, I was actually using the Kairos device because Game of Thrones is a relevant show. After finding the relevant topic, we can then write or speak about it knowing that our audience is interested in the topic.

-Natassja Haynes