Persuasion is an important factor because in history, there has been times where people had huge disagreements about what is right or wrong in the South. During the 1900’s, it was the Jim Crow era and it legally dismantled the rights of black people. “Jim Crow was the name of the racial caste system which operated primarily, but not exclusively in southern and border states, between 1877 and the mid-1960s...Under Jim Crow, African Americans were relegated to the status of second class citizens. Jim Crow represented the legitimization of anti-black racism.” (Pilgrim, 1). Throughout time, more and more people started realizing that this was wrong and that could be credited to the likes of Martin Luther King Jr. and Rosa Parks. Above all, in the
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Bitzer, has a theory in which he speaks about what rhetorical situations are and it is the context of a rhetorical event that consists of an issue, an audience, and a set of constraints. Concepts like exigence is the perceived problem that someone would use speech to change, and audience is the targeted group you aim to speak too. In "The Rhetorical Situation" (1968), Lloyd Bitzer notes that rhetorical constraints are "made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are part of the [rhetorical] situation because they have the power to constrain decision or action." Sources of constraint include "beliefs, attitudes, documents, facts, tradition, image, interests, motives and the like (Bitzer)." In the scenes chosen, there are multiple rhetorical situations that are presented as they include Dr. Farmers …show more content…
Farmer is extorted to pay for the pig, the white males speak down to him in front of his family. He loses control of the situation because he cannot show his dominance due to the racial tension going on. This impact uses pathos because Dr. Farmer didn't want to subject himself to a lower level but as he constantly kept looking back at his family, He knew he couldn't use his voice to convince the White man that it was an accident yet he just felt obligated to protect first. This is an effective scene that could be described by the Bitzer article for how it plays out and uses the 3 concepts that would make it strong enough to sense the trials and tribulations Dr. Farmer goes through with persuasion of
Bitzer, has a theory in which he speaks about what rhetorical situations are and it is the context of a rhetorical event that consists of an issue, an audience, and a set of constraints. Concepts like exigence is the perceived problem that someone would use speech to change, and audience is the targeted group you aim to speak too. In "The Rhetorical Situation" (1968), Lloyd Bitzer notes that rhetorical constraints are "made up of persons, events, objects, and relations which are part of the [rhetorical] situation because they have the power to constrain decision or action." Sources of constraint include "beliefs, attitudes, documents, facts, tradition, image, interests, motives and the like (Bitzer)." In the scenes chosen, there are multiple rhetorical situations that are presented as they include Dr. Farmers …show more content…
Farmer is extorted to pay for the pig, the white males speak down to him in front of his family. He loses control of the situation because he cannot show his dominance due to the racial tension going on. This impact uses pathos because Dr. Farmer didn't want to subject himself to a lower level but as he constantly kept looking back at his family, He knew he couldn't use his voice to convince the White man that it was an accident yet he just felt obligated to protect first. This is an effective scene that could be described by the Bitzer article for how it plays out and uses the 3 concepts that would make it strong enough to sense the trials and tribulations Dr. Farmer goes through with persuasion of