Florence Kelly was a great woman who opposed child labor, and she was a part of the National American Woman Suffrage Association. She delivered a speech on child labor in front of the NAWSA on the 22nd of July, 1905. She expresses her feelings and views on child labor through rhetorical strategies, such as appeal to pathos, statistics and facts appealing to logos, and a variety of other devices within the appeal to logos Pathos, which is the appeal to the emotion to readers, is frequently present in the speech. An example of this is when Kelly articulates “Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through. Words such as “while we sleep”, “thousand little girls”, and “all the night through” make readers feels sorry for all the little children going through tough work at
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This happens in the first paragraph, when Kelly remarks "We have in this country, two million children under the age of 16 years who are earning their bread. This shows us how many children are working, and the metaphor of bread already implies that she doesn't like this statistic. Another appeal to logos is when Kelly informs us " No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls from 14-20 years. This shows us more and more girls are working every year. Within the statistic, words such as "so rapidly" indicate that she doesn't really like that this is true, you can feel the tone. Kelly also mentions, " Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase..." The fact that she mentioned youth increase shows that child labor is increasing. She also uses repetition within the logos to emphasize the increase, which implies she doesn't like the increase. Overall, the use of appeal to logos and the use of other devices such as diction, tone and repetition help show her message
This happens in the first paragraph, when Kelly remarks "We have in this country, two million children under the age of 16 years who are earning their bread. This shows us how many children are working, and the metaphor of bread already implies that she doesn't like this statistic. Another appeal to logos is when Kelly informs us " No other portion of the wage earning class increased so rapidly from decade to decade as the young girls from 14-20 years. This shows us more and more girls are working every year. Within the statistic, words such as "so rapidly" indicate that she doesn't really like that this is true, you can feel the tone. Kelly also mentions, " Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase..." The fact that she mentioned youth increase shows that child labor is increasing. She also uses repetition within the logos to emphasize the increase, which implies she doesn't like the increase. Overall, the use of appeal to logos and the use of other devices such as diction, tone and repetition help show her message