Rhetorical Analysis Essay On 9/11

It all started with the 9/11 attack back in 2002. 8:46AM when people are at work, at school, Islamic terrorist group Al-qaeda had several terrorist attacks in the US, leaving nearly 3000 deaths, and many injured. The attack was devastating, leaving nothing but blood and desolation. It wasn’t the only thing they left behind though. It left a huge question about the aftermath of the attack: to have revenge and fight back, or not. Although Bush decided to seek revenge, and declare war against Al-qaeda by leading the “Global War on Terrorism” and many supported the idea there were a great number of people who were against the whole idea of declaring war against terrorism. Sean Penn, was one of them who were against the attack on Al-qaeda and to share his opinion to the public, as well as to President Bush, he paid a tremendous amount of …show more content…
To start off a letter, we address who we are sending it to. Sean Penn does this ofcorse, with “Mr. Bush”. This can be seen as an insult since we do not address the President as Mr. but instead, call him by the President, or by President Bush. He also states “Many of your actions to date and those proposed seem to violate every defining principle of this country….You lead, it seems, through a blood-lined sense of entitlement” (Penn) and describes in a negative way, his ways of leading the country. Although he uses harsh sentences, so that his point is made through, he still keeps the formal tone. At the end of the letter, formally, he states his last statement, “..should you mine and have faith in the best….Lead us there...and we will stand with you” (Penn), and properly ends it. Throughout the whole letter, Penn criticizes the president, and not in a nice way, so that his views are memorable to the President, but also all the other people who would read this