Rhetorical Analysis Of A More Perfect Union

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Breaking Down Obama Obamas A More Perfect Union establishes ethos by including past events that have affected America, this really presents the audience with a sense of compassion pertaining pathos,ethos, and logical (logos) arguments to persuade the audience. This speech is so moving because race can be such a difficult topic to talk about, especially when you have a whole nation watching you. In this speech Obama addresses the issues of race and addresses the comments that were made by his pastor Reverend Wright. With combining these appeals so well Obama is able to make a fluent and articulative speech that connects the audience and persuades the people to step away from the problems in the present and think about the solutions in the …show more content…

Logos also known as logical means persuading the reader by the use of reasoning. Logos is able to make logical arguments in order to persuade the audience. In A More Perfect Union Obama is able to make questionable arguments on a subject such as race and make a logical solution for what us Americans should do. Obama uses logos to represent that this union is not perfect yet, to become perfect we must come together as one. “The fact is that the comments that have been made and the issues that have surfaced over the last few weeks reflect the complexities of race in this country that we’ve never really worked through – a part of our union that we have yet to perfect. And if we walk away now, if we simply retreat into our respective corners, we will never be able to come together and solve challenges like health care, or education, or the need to find good jobs for every American.” (Obama 4) Obama is persuading logic by targeting the audience applying reason and logic. By working together we are able to conquer so much more and move past our racial profiling. Then we will become the perfect union that we have once imagined. Through these issues of race Obama is able to make a persuasive logical argument on the issue of race and unite the United States as

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