In 1981 Elizabeth Glaser received HIV during a blood transfusion, while she was having her daughter Ariel. Unfortunately, Elizabeth had then passed the virus to Ariel through her breast milk. Later, she gave birth to her son Jake, she then …show more content…
Elizabeth said “ four years ago my daughter died of aids. She did not survive the Reagan Administration.” That quote got the crowd's attention and made them want to listen to what she was saying. She also used parallelism to emphasize an important part of the speech. At the end of the speech she talks about how her daughter only lived 7 years but she was very intelligent and taught her a lot about life. Elizabeth repeated “she taught me” at the beginning of 3 sentences to get the audience to pay attention to what she was saying. When she repeated those words it made people realize that there needs to be more done for HIV, or adult and kids, like her daughter, are going to keep dying from the serious