In her speech, Florence Kelley advocates for children's rights (in the working field). She believes that children should not be forced to work for extended hours in factories. To convey this argument, she uses appeals to emotion, repetition, and rhetorical questions. Kelley uses appeals to emotion to emphasize the seriousness regarding child labor. She does this by describing the intense labor children go through. For instance, she puts emphasis on the phrases “little girls” “all night long/through” and “hours” to stress the idea that children are “little beasts of burden” who are “robbed of [their] school life.” Furthermore, Kelley states “they will [work] tonight, while we sleep” to make the audience feel guilty about children that are
