Rhetorical Analysis Outline

Rhetorical Analysis Outline of "Malala" Speech

Purpose: To inform people about the issue and persuade them to join her cause of speak up for what's wrong.

Audience: The audience is everyone ... even the Taliban as she constantly says "we" and "everyone."

Context: Awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for giving a speech on July 12th, 2013 at the UN after terrorist attacks, the speech was organized by the President of the UN General Assembly

Section 1: Introduction
Purpose: sets a tone to let the audience know she is thankful for everyone and being able to speak on this day.
Appeals: Establishes ethos and pathos
Technique:  addressing everyone to make sure everyone is included and thanked. She tries to make everyone feel like they're apart of her healing process.
Effectiveness: this was very effective because she kept everyone included so they can feel like they were being helpful.

Section 2: Uniting Everyone In Other Ways
Purpose: showing that it's not only her that wants change and stands up for what isn't right, but there are others as well and they all need to unite.
Appeals: a lot of pathos—"My ambitions are the same. My hopes are the same. My dreams are the same.
Techniques: uses a lot of repetition, sentence variation and an analogy--"we realized the importance of pens and books when we saw the guns."  

Section 3: Addressing The Problem and Proposing A Solution
Purpose: letting everyone know what the Taliban is doing and convince the audience that everyone has to take a stand against what is going on around them.
Claim: "the pen is mightier than the sword"
Evidence: she talks about a boy in her class who said, "A Talib doesn't know what is written inside this book" meaning they are afraid of other people learning what they don't know.
Warrant: people, mostly women, want to be educated and they want rights to be able to chose if they can be educated without being threatened or shot at.
Techniques: use of diction or word choice exaggerates the situation, using words like ignorance and deprivation; repetition is used.

General Evaluation:
Malala spoke on behalf of everyone who struggles with some sort of oppression and for people who can't raise their own voices for rights or equality. Malala spoke about a general problem, common in the Middle East, expanding it to a specific topic--education. She used a lot of pathos and ethos to appeal to the people she was speaking to as she tried to unify everyone and have everyone fight for the same cause. As she did this she did not dehumanize anyone in the process, even the enemy also known as the Taliban; which goes back to her strong use of ethos. Malala used education as her base, but didn't talk about education in a broad way the entire time which is why her speech was powerful through her structure.