Rhetorical Analysis Of 9/11, Addresses The Nation

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The speech, “9/11, Addresses the Nation” who George W. Bush opens up about the attack towards the nation. The motive from the speech was to build up confidence to Americans. To not let this attack make us fragile, but to unify as one to become strong together and fight through this. In the speech he used more of an pathos appeal. Pathos is the speaker or author appealing them with emotion which he had used in the speech.
The point of the speech was to pacify Americans . As in a appeal point of view, pathos shows a strong appeal to the speech.The tone from the speech was to lighten In the speech it states “grieve, for the children whose worlds have been shattered”, meaning to comfort the children to what have the damage had done to ¨their

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