Persuasive Speech Analysis

Introduction

Speech has long been a form of persuasive communication since 400BC. Through speech, people express their feelings into words, letting others feel the same emotions towards an issue and to lead others to go in the same direction as themselves.

Currently, thousands of people suffer in fear of terrorism and are forced to live in another country with no rights of medical service, education and no identity. Since the nineteenth century, the number of refugees, internally displaced people and asylums are growing in an unsuppressed manner. In 1905, the United Nations refugee agency was created to resettle the homeless from world war two and the agency carried on rescuing refugees from Africa and Asia (UNHCR). In 2000, it was decided

When she inform her audience about a mother who wants her son to follow Jolie and go out of the camp for a better life, Jolie mentioned that "And it hurts her to say that they have nothing. And she asked if we would consider taking him, would we take her sons so he could eat. And she said it with tears in her eyes with such a desperation" (Jolie). By repeating "and", it shows how complicated the mother felt and how miserable the environment was. It also shows the love of the mother to the child. It is very emotive how the audience hears the mother being so desperate for her sons to escape hunger and rather not be able to see her sons forever than letting her sons suffer hunger. It spreads empathy in the audience. Another example of triplets is when Jolie said "I saw more victims of war. I saw small children full of hunger and fear, crying mothers, wounded fathers, I saw a sea of humanity - all desperate, all deserving" (Jolie). Repeating "I saw "shows that Jolie is feeling helpless and grieved by the terribleness of humanity but she can do nothing to help all of the struggling lives. This gives passion to the audience to help listening to the speaker's helplessness and the horrifying situations. In the last anaphora of the speech, Jolie emphasizes how refugees changed her life, how they taught her to "be brave", "to be a mother" and to have "an unbreakable spirit" (Jolie). These emphasizes the

Jolie described how she met an Afghani woman along with her children in the refugee camp in a "small dirt house". Being in the middle of the desert, the Afghani invited her to sit on the old mats they use for eating, sleeping and praying. As a refugee, the Afghani women gave Jolie her last cup of tea, treating her as a guest (Jolie). This touching real story of the widow's mite brings shame to the audience. Jolie reminds people around the world of humanity's selfishness and the poor's generosity. The woman gave her last cup of tea to a stranger she invited while people refuse to donate for refugees suffering in pain, hungry and depression. The audience remorse from the story and feel touched by the Afghani refugee's act of kindness. Jolie also described an asylum boy who was shot and paralyzed and "an eight-year-old girl who had seen her family killed in front of her and she grabbed her baby brother and she ran into the jungle and survived, terrified and alone for two weeks" (Jolie). As she informs the world about the tough and misery lives, people will feel sad and pity those being refugees. This can also be seen in how she inform the audience about a pregnant refugee urging for Jolie to take her son, just for him to stop suffering from hunger. The audience can feel the desperateness of the mother and disconsolate about the fact that a mother is willing to not see her son forever for her son to suffering