Geronimo's Inaugural Address Rhetorical Analysis

In order to persuade an audience speakers will use many approaches in order to appeal to whom they are speaking to. In Geronimo's speech, he uses pathos to make the reader feel emotional from his experiences.

In his speech he uses ethos to help the audience feel sympathy for what has happened to him and his people. For example, Geronimo says “The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.” showing that they were always viewed as the bad people to the government and no one is informed when the Indians were mistreated. If you are viewed as bad, no one feels sympathy for you, so they wouldn't help the Indians and continued to mistreat them. As a reader it makes you see the Indians side and feel sorrowful for what they went through. …show more content…
In the last paragraph Geronimo says “I was born on the prairies where the wind blew free and there was nothing to break the light of the sun. I was born where there were no enclosures." Helping the reader see how different his life was before the government. He uses a hyperbole to exaggerate what he was saying to really make the reader understand how things have