Mexican americans and the church
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In the speech that Cesar chavez presented himself at a mexican american celebration conference talks about of how he sees the church and mexican americans during the strike.The conference was about the annual discussion what is going on in the hispanic/ latino community. Chavez was committed to carry out his movement with no violence toward the crowd who doubted him and movement, sadly others did try violence on them, for that they did not succeed on them down. He also had brought this speech towards the public during his 25 days of spiritual fast and had talked about mexican americans and the church including how they are related.Using imagery,metaphors,and repetition, …show more content…
Repetition is the repeating of words that gets your attention to view the subject with more interest.A repetition example would start with beginning of the speech by mentioned “The place to begin is with our own experience with the Church in the strike that has gone on for thirty-one months in Delano. For in Delano the Church”. Revising the quote above you can clearly see that the word “church” is repeated through the two sentences. A meaning for this stated repetition is that they’re explaining how the church ties in with Cesar Chavez and his movement. Another repeating sentence also included the word again “Though we were not allowed to have our own priest, the power of the ecumenical body of the Church was tremendous. The work of the Church, for example, in the Schenley, Di Giorgio, Perelli-Minetti strikes was fantastic.” The repetition here was “the church” repeating itself in these sentences giving a clear statement to the readers they should pay attention intently that the subject of the speech is the church. The words are distanced apart that would give an explanation that it’s repeating, but they’re given to not catch attention …show more content…
Also they way the speech is set up they make the speech different to make it flow better and have a good organizational structure. The summary of the rhetorical devices was imagery to give the readers a mental image , metaphors to give the readers the understanding of how two objects compare to each other, the last one was repetition to grab the readers attention. They all worked together to create a powerful speech that would go through history for us to understand what happened during that time