A Rhetorical Analysis Of Emmett Till

In this article there are many references to the different areas of rhetorical analysis, but I think pathos the use of emotions forms most of the article. First, the author starts out by building a picture of a young teenage boy “Emmett Till”, he describes him as a boy with “cherubic features” and a “boyish grin”. By using his audience’s emotions, he is saying how someone who reminds us of an angel can do something, which resulted in his untimely death. He continues to use emotions as the article continues, building anger and outrage in his readers by saying how could a child be dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and be taken to an isolated area where he was beaten, shot and killed, and then his body was thrown into a river, with the hope that it would never being found. All of this was done just because he supposedly whistled at a white woman outside a small grocery store, …show more content…
Why? What would an organization, like the NAACP gain by staging a murder of this magnitude? So horrifying that if it was found out that they were involved, just imagine the backlash their organization would have suffered, the damage to their own credibility, how would anyone ever trust them again. Anyone with even a little common sense, would ask what do they, the NAACP have to gain from this? What do they hope to gain from such a horrific event, compassion, anger, outrage the list could go on and on?
Emmett’s mother Mamie Till-Mobley upset and shaken from her son’s death, uses pathos and Kairos to her advantage. How? She insist that pictures of her sons badly beaten body, that had also been shot, be published in the newspapers of the time. She also insisted in a glass enclosed coffin so people could see for themselves firsthand, what had happened that faithful day in Mississippi, to create a feeling of sadness, anger, outrage, pity