Rhetorical Analysis Of We Should All Be Feminist By Adichie

The thesis of “We Should All Be Feminists” is everyone should be feminists because men are always viewed as the ones who have to greater than women in almost everything and it must be fixed. A feminist does not have to be a woman, a man can be one too. More importantly, she is specifically trying to cause awareness of the gender inequality in Africa because that is where she is from and it is where she has seen the stereotype against women.

If this was a written essay, the category it would fit into is a persuasive essay because Adichie uses logos, pathos, and ethos to persuade the audience. She uses logos when she is talking about how female apes bow to male apes. She says, “So some people will bring up evolutionary biology and apes, how,

One of method of development that she uses is a fact. She talks about how there was a girl that was raped by a gang in a university in Nigeria. She uses this to advance her argument by talking about the response from Nigerians which was, “Yes, rape is wrong. But what is a girl doing in a room with four boys?” By using the fact that someone got raped and talking about the response from Nigerians, it lets the audience know that no one is caring about the girl and it shows that something needs to change in Africa for people to realize that the woman was the victim. Another method of development is an anecdote. She uses an anecdote when she talks about the story when she was with her friend Louis, who is a male, and gave an extra tip to man who helped them find a parking spot. She says, “And so as we were leaving, I decided to leave him a tip. I opened my bag, put my hand inside my bag, brought out my money that I had earned from doing my work, and I gave it to the man. And he, this man who was very grateful and very happy, took the money from me, looked across at Louis and said, "Thank you, sir!"” By using this anecdote, she is saying that the man assumed that the money that was given was from Louis. She was the one who payed, except it is always assumed that whatever money a woman has, it ultimately comes from the man. It lets the audience know about the stereotype of how men are the ones who always carry the money and that

This helps her deliver the message because her tone is very confident and it makes her presentation really effective because she sounds like someone who really wants something to be done with the gender inequality in Africa. She is really passionate and the audience is able to feel it when they hear how confident she is. Another code and convention that she uses is when she pauses. This helps her deliver her message when ever she pauses, it lets audience take in what she is saying. There are many parts before she pauses where she says something funny, and it helps her because it keeps the audience engaged in what is to come. Finally, another code and convention that is used is stereotypes. She makes a lot of references to stereotypes, for example, women are the ones who cook, men are seen as the ones who have the money, making decisions based on men, etc… This helps deliver her message because by pointing out all of the challenges women have to face with the stereotypes, she is letting everyone know how women are treated unfairly and that something needs to