Civil rights advocate Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., was one of the most influential African American speech activists of the 60’s. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. applied peaceful nonviolent strategies such as strikes, marches, and boycotts taught by Gandhi to protest African American civil rights. Being a powerful figure in the political and religious world Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. had a big target on his head and unfortunately was assassinated in 1968. This lead to many calls of violent protesting over the loss of a great leader. Ten years later on the anniversary of his death, in 1978, Cesar Chavez published an article about Dr. King's nonviolent resistance and pleads to his audience to see the reason that being violent will not promote significant change. Chavez use of juxtaposition, literary devices such as bandwagon and historical allusion, and form of ethos.
In the first third of the article, Cesar Chavez juxtaposes the use of nonviolent and violent protesting to appeal to his audience moral understanding. Chavez exclaims, “We are also …show more content…
Doing so has a correlation to who this article is directed at. Chavez published this article in a religious magazine in hope of targeting people devoted to helping others. Appealing to people’s morals, especially religious people’s morals, his audience is enticed to follow his claim of nonviolence. Chavez guilt’s his readers to appeal to nonviolence because of the inhumane justice that violent protesting has on people. He says, “Those who espouse violence exploit people,” (lines 82-83). Chavez associates those who support violence as inhumane and immoral to guilt his readers of the imperfections that violence has over nonviolence. Chavez appeals to his audiences moral religious duty and humane inclination to show that nonviolence is the most moral and practical way of achieving significant
In the first third of the article, Cesar Chavez juxtaposes the use of nonviolent and violent protesting to appeal to his audience moral understanding. Chavez exclaims, “We are also …show more content…
Doing so has a correlation to who this article is directed at. Chavez published this article in a religious magazine in hope of targeting people devoted to helping others. Appealing to people’s morals, especially religious people’s morals, his audience is enticed to follow his claim of nonviolence. Chavez guilt’s his readers to appeal to nonviolence because of the inhumane justice that violent protesting has on people. He says, “Those who espouse violence exploit people,” (lines 82-83). Chavez associates those who support violence as inhumane and immoral to guilt his readers of the imperfections that violence has over nonviolence. Chavez appeals to his audiences moral religious duty and humane inclination to show that nonviolence is the most moral and practical way of achieving significant