John F Kennedy Inaugural Address Summary

From the day John F. Kennedy stood up in front of all American citizens as the 35th president of the United States on the 20th of January, 1961, he has been well known by not only American citizens but also by people all over the world. In the time period a while after the World War II (1939-1945), although there was no actual battle taking place in America, America was at war. The Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States was increasing in intensity, embroiling the whole world. It divided not only the world into two powers but it also exposed the world’s citizens, to use Kennedy’s words, to the “hour of maximum danger” of freedom. This issue and its dealings were the major concern for Kennedy, the new president to be, as well …show more content…
22).” With this purpose, he skillfully uses rhetorical tools such as antithesis and chiasmus to connect to Americans and to the world, unite them and encourage them to join this global fight over their freedom. The response of American citizens to his appeal was large and became a great momentum to support the new president and his visions. According to Clarke Thurston (2005), Kennedy got only 49.7 percent of popular vote when he won the 1960 election, but he received an approval rating of 72 percent in a Gallup national poll taken soon after his inauguration in …show more content…
His repeated use of antithesis indicates and contracts negative and positive future outcomes from the adverse use of science. He makes approaches to the audience to recognize the dual nature of science, starting, “Let both sides seek to invoke the wonders of science instead of its terrors (Kennedy, 1961, para.17).” Then, both negative and positive outcomes from the terror of science and its wonders are shown