In the mid 1960s, farm workers experienced many hardships and labor without enough resources to live comfortably. Cesar Chavez argues how farm workers should be treated like humans and that we should fight for their rights in his speech, The Union & The Strike. Fighting for the workers’ rights requires forming a union which will show how power can come in numbers. Using moralistic and ambitious diction, an audacious and zealous tone, logos, pathos and syntax, Chavez was able to share his ideas with the public and persuade them to help farm workers receive the rights they deserve. Chavez uses moralistic and ambitious diction in order to convey his message out to the audience. Morality is shown when the director of the National Farm Workers
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He mentions the realization that, “You live in big, warm homes and we live in boxes. You have plenty to eat while our children work in your fields” (paragraph 3). This civil rights leader uses the idea of using boxes as a source of shelter and children working in the fields to bring the audience to feel pitiful for the farm workers. The polar realities such as warm homes and boxes explicitly presents how deprived of rights these migrant workers have. The spectacle of children working in order to survive is not one anyone would desire to view. Chavez used pathos to convince the audience that his point of view is the right point of view. Another example of him trying to make the audience feel sorry for the farm workers is when he responds, “Your wives are free to make a good home while our wives work in the fields. We do the work and you make most of the money” (paragraph 3). The audience knows by this paragraph that essentially everyone in the family is working in the fields. Even though only the men in the warm house families are the ones who need work to live life comfortably, these migrant workers have their entire family working and are not able to gain enough to feed the family or have a roof on top of their heads every night. Those with the privilege of going home with food at the table in the favorable home conditions in …show more content…
The repetitive style of parallel structure is used when Chavez announces, “Our strike is stopping the work in the fields... Our strike is stopping the trucks that would carry the grapes. OUR STRIKE WILL STOP EVERY WAY THE GROWER MAKES MONEY…” (paragraph 7). The repetition of the phrase “Our strike…” brings emphasis towards the reiterated phrase, increasing the importance more and more as the speaker further explains what the strike will do. Every sentence represents an example of a way that the strike will fight for what they want. The dedication and the sensible rebellion can influence the listener to help input what they can to help fight for rights. This civil rights activist also uses exclamatory syntax in his speech to emphasize why he is fighting for the farm workers. The exclamation point in the sentence, “FROM THIS DAY WE DEMAND TO BE TREATED LIKE THE MEN WE ARE!” (paragraph 1) boldly states the goal of the strike. Not only does Cesar Chavez appeal to logos in this sentence but he also accentuates what he wants from the rest of the society. The purpose of the speech is to evidently help the farm workers to be treated like equally paid citizens. The more emphasis that is put into the speech, shows how important this cause is for the speaker himself, and those affected by the issue he
He mentions the realization that, “You live in big, warm homes and we live in boxes. You have plenty to eat while our children work in your fields” (paragraph 3). This civil rights leader uses the idea of using boxes as a source of shelter and children working in the fields to bring the audience to feel pitiful for the farm workers. The polar realities such as warm homes and boxes explicitly presents how deprived of rights these migrant workers have. The spectacle of children working in order to survive is not one anyone would desire to view. Chavez used pathos to convince the audience that his point of view is the right point of view. Another example of him trying to make the audience feel sorry for the farm workers is when he responds, “Your wives are free to make a good home while our wives work in the fields. We do the work and you make most of the money” (paragraph 3). The audience knows by this paragraph that essentially everyone in the family is working in the fields. Even though only the men in the warm house families are the ones who need work to live life comfortably, these migrant workers have their entire family working and are not able to gain enough to feed the family or have a roof on top of their heads every night. Those with the privilege of going home with food at the table in the favorable home conditions in …show more content…
The repetitive style of parallel structure is used when Chavez announces, “Our strike is stopping the work in the fields... Our strike is stopping the trucks that would carry the grapes. OUR STRIKE WILL STOP EVERY WAY THE GROWER MAKES MONEY…” (paragraph 7). The repetition of the phrase “Our strike…” brings emphasis towards the reiterated phrase, increasing the importance more and more as the speaker further explains what the strike will do. Every sentence represents an example of a way that the strike will fight for what they want. The dedication and the sensible rebellion can influence the listener to help input what they can to help fight for rights. This civil rights activist also uses exclamatory syntax in his speech to emphasize why he is fighting for the farm workers. The exclamation point in the sentence, “FROM THIS DAY WE DEMAND TO BE TREATED LIKE THE MEN WE ARE!” (paragraph 1) boldly states the goal of the strike. Not only does Cesar Chavez appeal to logos in this sentence but he also accentuates what he wants from the rest of the society. The purpose of the speech is to evidently help the farm workers to be treated like equally paid citizens. The more emphasis that is put into the speech, shows how important this cause is for the speaker himself, and those affected by the issue he