Rhetorical Analysis Of Christopher Reeves's Speech

Since Reeves was paralyzed he knew how hard it was for everyone else with a disability and he wanted to speak for them since he was a famous figure everyone adored. At the Democratic Convention Reeves talked about how everyone in America was a family and how we needed to help the disabled by increasing research investments and passing the Americans with Disabilities Act. In his speech Christopher Reeves used diction,details and emotions to achieve his goal about passing the Americans with Disabilities Act

In his speech Christopher Reeves said that we had heard a lot about family values and how everyone in America was a family. Reeves uses this so he can make people realize how people we know and family members could be affected by disabilities. Reeves gives an ratio of how many people have disabilities and affected by it by saying “One in five of us have some kind of disability.” Reeves uses these examples to tell people that if we do love family we need to help all of our “family”. …show more content…
Reeves states that “we don’t need to raise taxes. We just need to raise our expectations.” to try to show we don’t need to raise taxes to help people with disabilities, just try harder to help them. Reeves tells everyone that nations envy us because we can achieve the impossible and that’s how we have the largest economy and how we got to the moon to show people it is possible to help people with the disabilities act if we just tried. Christopher Reeves tells the people listening about a personal experience about how he was in rehab and had a picture of the space shuttle launching into space signed by all the astronauts at NASA to show that he believes that nothing is impossible if we can get to