Mary Fisher Speech Analysis

Mary Fisher is speaking to an audience at the Republican National Convention Address. In the speech Mary reads, she expresses her worries for the spread of AIDS. Mary is trying to inform the audience of how rapid AIDS is spreading in our country. By informing people of the infection, Mary thinks she will help decrease the spread of AIDS. Mary tells the audience that AIDS is one of the top third leading diseases responsible for death in the United States. Mary got AIDS because she was unaware of the disease, but now she knows how to protect against them. With that, she is trying to spread awareness and prevent others from getting AIDS. In Mary's speech, she uses ethos by having the first thing ending her first paragraph in her speech being, “I want your attention, not your applause” (1). That right there is grabbing the audience's attention that she is serious about what she is speaking about. Mary also states, “I would never have asked to be HIV positive, but I believe that in all things there is a purpose; and I stand before you and before the nation gladly” (1), by …show more content…
Mary is giving this speech so she can spread the word about AIDs so the audience is made up of all kinds of people. People in the audience could be people that are mothers, fathers, black, white, gay, straight, democrat, or republican. Mary makes sure that the speech is pointed to everybody no matter how different people see them. Mary doesn’t say who makes up the audience but people can get the idea that it is pointed at everyone because she says, “ . . . recognize that AIDS virus is not a political creature. It does not care whether you are Democrat or Republican; it does not ask whether you are black or white, male or female, gay or straight, young or old” (1). Mary is stating that the AIDS are not going to judge you on what you look like or what you believe in, AIDS is going to infect whoever is in it’s