Marissa Hess Mrs. Tinberg Period 4 29 February 2024 Hurricane Katrina Address Analysis Think back to when you were a kid, life was simple, carefree, and should be the highlight of your life, the point you always look back to. Your only worries are what park you're going to go to, or what toy you'll get to bring in the car. There are no taxes, bills, or everyday stressors of adult life. Every kid out there deserves to live out their little years while it lasts. However, during a horrendous storm known as Hurricane Katrina, it wiped innocent children out of their homes, leaving them homeless. This completely robbed these innocent kids of their childhood. The governor at the time understands this and writes a speech for the people. Kathleen Blanco’s …show more content…
It caused about $161 billion dollars in damages, which is the record for the most costly hurricane ever. It also killed just under 2,000 people. The rhetorical appeal represented in “Hurricane Katrina Address” is Pathos. Blanco shows sympathy with her audience, she made people truly believe she was there and she knows. She goes into talking about damage and hits them with this, “I have met brothers separated from sisters, mothers and fathers searching for children, and children who have seen things no child should have to witness.” (Blanco 2). She comes at the audience with a striking fact, that the storm, as she said, ‘ripped families apart’. This is important to add because it tells us she knows that there is more than physical damage, there is also mental damage to be seen, and is showing it to bring a voice to the people of her state. Blanco’s bringing the emotion to explain she will change things.This is exactly what is needed because if this speech rolls right off people's shoulders, they aren’t going to believe or remember anything she has to say so she needed to make it stick. This is one way Blanco uses the rhetorical appeal