Rhetorical Analysis Of Obama

Presidential candidate Obama was snared in an affair to where he had to show to the world mainly the citizens of America that he can continue the values that the great nation was founded on. He was challenged by a great power in his life, his pastor, Reverend Wright, who was found making slightly racist comments and derogatory comments towards America. With those remarks, Obama was forced into a moral dilemma in which he was practically being told by media to no longer consider him his reverend. Through all of this he was able to remain calm and he delivered one of the most powerful speeches using many rhetorical devices such as Parallelism. Obama was able to use this to his advantage by convincing the audience that we are still able to move …show more content…
This is a strong statement because when he was young and was walking in the streets, his grandma would admit she was terrified of the random black men who would pass her in the street even though she was raising a young black child. In a way he used this as Pathos to target the audience’s emotion by referring to his grandmother with her being white and him being a black individual, and how he saw her emotion when a black man approached her. In this statement Obama was able to blend in the rhetorical device paradox through the fact that his grandmother was scared of black men yet she was raising a black child, and also able to identify imagery in which he said “ethnic stereotypes that made me cringe”. The audience can imagine the sight of Obama cringing to the sight of ethnic and racial …show more content…
Reverend Wright is caught saying the black community as a whole has made no progress at all which you can find irony in (a rhetorical device) because although the black community has made no progress, one of his own church members was running for the presidency of The United States. He then proceeds to give the audience a choice of to describe racism as pretty much a news cover or we could come together as a whole and a united country and truly defeat racial tension. In these profound mistakes and comments, Reverend Wright forgets how far we have come from the slavery, from the civil wars, and the segregation. At the end Obama claims as a nation we can come together and unite all the races and ethnicities “build a coalition” and make this country how our forefathers wanted it to be. A religious tolerant, freely speaking country with free people. In this Obama’s style and tone changes and he becomes more inspirational, hopeful and