The Tenth Anniversary
On the tenth anniversary of the murder of one of the biggest influences on racial equality,
Martin Luther King Jr, an article written by Cesar Chavez was published in a religious magazine, this article talks definitively about nonviolent resistance and it’s opposite, resistance through violence. Cesar Chavez reaches his point on nonviolence being the best possible way to succeed in protests by writing in a certain way that allows everyone to understand his points. His article also follows a compare and contrast structure between violence and nonviolence that leaves the audience with a feeling of certainty and he persuades the audience using a confident and appealing tone. The way he crafted his article creates a undeniable …show more content…
He structures his body paragraph to switch between violence and nonviolence, he gives his audience reasons in agreement with nonviolence, while simultaneously degrading the method of violent resistance. He achieves this balance by inserting a paragraph regarding violence in the middle of a section on nonviolence. To demonstrate, the topic of the paragraphs immediately after the introduction are “nonviolence is more powerful” then “if we resort to violence then one of two things will happen” and finally he goes back and discusses how nonviolence is a more powerful method by starting the next paragraph with “nonviolence has exactly the opposite effect”. His structure of this essay feeds the reader the positives of nonviolence and the negatives of violence at the same time. By constructing his article in such a way, Cesar Chavez is able to persuade his audience that “people suffer from …show more content…
He writes in a definitive and serious way, no where in his article is proof of him “beating around the bush”. To accomplish such a direct tone, Chavez says things like, “violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths”. This sentence leaves the audience with all they need to know about violent resistance. His tone additionally ties into his simple diction, these two concepts play hand-in-hand in his article. His simple diction leads to a decisive and direct tone, this can be explained easily, the simpler words the simpler the point. The same mutually beneficial situation occurs when examining his direct tone, which causes a more basic diction because he doesn’t need complicated, high level, or challenging words when he knows exactly what he wants to say. This idea is present all throughout his essay, to be more specific, this notion is demonstrated in the following lines, “Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers.” and “people suffer from violence”, neither of these quotes need further investigation to learn what they are saying and what they
On the tenth anniversary of the murder of one of the biggest influences on racial equality,
Martin Luther King Jr, an article written by Cesar Chavez was published in a religious magazine, this article talks definitively about nonviolent resistance and it’s opposite, resistance through violence. Cesar Chavez reaches his point on nonviolence being the best possible way to succeed in protests by writing in a certain way that allows everyone to understand his points. His article also follows a compare and contrast structure between violence and nonviolence that leaves the audience with a feeling of certainty and he persuades the audience using a confident and appealing tone. The way he crafted his article creates a undeniable …show more content…
He structures his body paragraph to switch between violence and nonviolence, he gives his audience reasons in agreement with nonviolence, while simultaneously degrading the method of violent resistance. He achieves this balance by inserting a paragraph regarding violence in the middle of a section on nonviolence. To demonstrate, the topic of the paragraphs immediately after the introduction are “nonviolence is more powerful” then “if we resort to violence then one of two things will happen” and finally he goes back and discusses how nonviolence is a more powerful method by starting the next paragraph with “nonviolence has exactly the opposite effect”. His structure of this essay feeds the reader the positives of nonviolence and the negatives of violence at the same time. By constructing his article in such a way, Cesar Chavez is able to persuade his audience that “people suffer from …show more content…
He writes in a definitive and serious way, no where in his article is proof of him “beating around the bush”. To accomplish such a direct tone, Chavez says things like, “violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths”. This sentence leaves the audience with all they need to know about violent resistance. His tone additionally ties into his simple diction, these two concepts play hand-in-hand in his article. His simple diction leads to a decisive and direct tone, this can be explained easily, the simpler words the simpler the point. The same mutually beneficial situation occurs when examining his direct tone, which causes a more basic diction because he doesn’t need complicated, high level, or challenging words when he knows exactly what he wants to say. This idea is present all throughout his essay, to be more specific, this notion is demonstrated in the following lines, “Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers.” and “people suffer from violence”, neither of these quotes need further investigation to learn what they are saying and what they