Rhetorical Analysis Of Aren T I A Woman

Sojouner Truth, “Aren’t I a Woman” which holds the powerful, strong-minded, gave a speech that gives African American a sense of relief that they are well longing for. At the same time, they are presented on the knowledge of how African American women are faced with discrimination and inequality in America. I will discuss Sojouner Truth’s use of personal experiences to educate the emotional response from her response, the repetition in to build her arguments of the inequality amongst African Americans, and her biblical resources to get Christians to really take a closer look on the world we live in today. Sojouner Truth spoke to the Women’s Convention she wanted to establish a connection with her audience that black women are targeted in a way as if they’re not capable to do anything. The idea that men think women are beneath them is very unacceptable. For example, a man stated,” women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and have the best place everywhere.” (Truth 180) Sojouner Truth stated,” Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me the best place!” (Truth 180) Which shows how men are given every opportunity but for black women we have to fight and struggle to …show more content…
She explains the fact that she believes she deserves the right to equality just like every other African American woman would like to as well. With her consistently states the same rhetorical question to build more and more of the emotion into her audience as if they could feel the discrimination onto them and how they would like to be free from the burden that others bring onto them. As she stated her rhetorical question to her audience she changes tones and the volume of her speech so that her audience understands her passion and dedication to the rights of others and how seriously it should be taken