Part 1: Analysis of Barack Obama’s speech 2004 Keynote A1ddress
The speech is written and spoken by Barack Obama in 2004. Back then he was a senator in Illinois, and this speech changed everyone’s point of view of him, and people started to see his presidential potential.
About 9.1 million people were reported to have watched the Democratic convention on the night of the speech.
In the speech Barack Obama starts out talking about his heritage, and how his family started from the bottom, and worked their way up, to where he is now. In the speech he is mentioning his father as poor and growing up heading goats in a small village in Kenya, his grandfather as a cook and his maternal grandfather’s joining of Patton’s army for America. …show more content…
The language style is emotional and motivating, because he uses pathos and ethos to achieve.
He uses the pronouns “we” and “our” a lot, which gives the audience a sense of inclusiveness. It gives them the feeling that the speaker, Barack Obama, and the people aren’t so different, and that feeling gives the audience an unconsciously pride, and that makes them start to admire him and take his side.
The analysis reveals that Obama uses the elements of Ethos and Pathos in his speech quite frequently. This could be, because he was very interested in motivating and persuading people by appealing to their emotions instead of their intellect, as it is easier to persuade people emotionally, at least in this context.
I think that his intentions with the speech are to clarify and, like I said earlier, to motivate the audience, and make them believe that they can do it, if they work for it. In the end he says, “people don’t expect the government to solve all their problems”, so he talks on behalf of them, which makes them unite and unconsciously agree with him. In that way I think his intentions worked pretty well, and that people really did feel inspired, because he related to them with his story, like I know I
The speech is written and spoken by Barack Obama in 2004. Back then he was a senator in Illinois, and this speech changed everyone’s point of view of him, and people started to see his presidential potential.
About 9.1 million people were reported to have watched the Democratic convention on the night of the speech.
In the speech Barack Obama starts out talking about his heritage, and how his family started from the bottom, and worked their way up, to where he is now. In the speech he is mentioning his father as poor and growing up heading goats in a small village in Kenya, his grandfather as a cook and his maternal grandfather’s joining of Patton’s army for America. …show more content…
The language style is emotional and motivating, because he uses pathos and ethos to achieve.
He uses the pronouns “we” and “our” a lot, which gives the audience a sense of inclusiveness. It gives them the feeling that the speaker, Barack Obama, and the people aren’t so different, and that feeling gives the audience an unconsciously pride, and that makes them start to admire him and take his side.
The analysis reveals that Obama uses the elements of Ethos and Pathos in his speech quite frequently. This could be, because he was very interested in motivating and persuading people by appealing to their emotions instead of their intellect, as it is easier to persuade people emotionally, at least in this context.
I think that his intentions with the speech are to clarify and, like I said earlier, to motivate the audience, and make them believe that they can do it, if they work for it. In the end he says, “people don’t expect the government to solve all their problems”, so he talks on behalf of them, which makes them unite and unconsciously agree with him. In that way I think his intentions worked pretty well, and that people really did feel inspired, because he related to them with his story, like I know I