Rhetorical Analysis Of Malala Speech

In Malala’s acceptance speech she is focusing her beliefs onto her speech. In her speech she constantly trying to address one major issue that has been going on for years. Education. She has been fighting for quality education for girls for about eight years. She expresses her belief by using Pathos, Repetition, and Logos to prove/show that everyone especially girls should have quality education. Firstly when the Malala starts to talk about her and her friends being shot is pathos. Everyone knows the story of Malala being shot, so she briefly explains what happened. “The terrorists tried to stop us and attacked me and my friends...on our school bus in 2012, but neither their ideas nor their bullets could win”(483). She uses pathos to persuade by talking about her …show more content…
Continuing, talking about them being shot brings a sense of empathy, sadness, and realization of how important education really is, and can persuade the audience to stand with her in her cause It also lets us know that she was targeted for believing in quality education. Secondly Malala uses repetition as a way to assert seriousness in her point. When Malala uses repetition it brings assuranty, seriousness, and a hopeful tone to the speech. “Let this be the last time that a girl or a boy spends their childhood in a factory. Let this be the last time that a girl is forced into early child marriage. Let this be the last time that a child loses life in war. Let this be the last time that we see a child out of school”(485). Malala is repeating “Let this be the last time” to really stick her point into the mud, and make sure that you understand the severity of her words. This also persuades the audience because her repeating these words asserts her belief/point onto us, adding a sense of seriousness. Lastly Malala uses logos to provide truthful information about what her cause is for. She goes on to the amount of girls without education. “I am those 66 million girls who are