Mary Fisher Speech Analysis

Although Elizabeth Glaser and Mary Fisher both address the HIV/AIDS epidemic skillfully, I think that; unrelated to their specific parties, that Mary Fisher makes a strong rhetorical argument. When Mary Fisher says “We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence.” Fisher is evoking Pathos, in the sense that she is telling us of our wrongdoings. She is saying the fact we choose to ignore our fellow citizens' hardships dealing with HIV/AIDS; means that we are killing them. She says that we kill them because we do nothing about their situation. Again when Fishers says “Tonight, HIV marches resolutely towards AIDS in more than a million American homes, littering its pathway with the bodies of the young-- young …show more content…
By doing so she creates a more urgent call to action. When Fisher says “ We have killed each other with our ignorance, our prejudice, and our silence.” She is blatantly calling out America for not doing anything for the families suffering from HIV and Aids, she is saying that because the Government is not doing anything that we as a community are killing kids, men and women who are struggling with HIV/AIDS because we haven't done anything to help them, such as researching on ways to cure it. I think this messages she puts into her speech really help and make it clear what she wants America to do as a whole, no matter who you are, like your race, sex, gender, sexuality or from which party your from. Her whole point of this speech is to bring awareness to this horrible disease. By using Pathos she is waking America up to the calls for help, which in my opinion is a very smart way to make your audience want the same thing as you, by making them feel like they are responsible for so many deaths. She is using the logic that because nobody is really doing anything about the problem at hand, that then we the people who do nothing are responsible for every death that comes out of