To help understand this speech and its implications, one must first be aware of the context surrounding it. It was presented before the presidential election to help thrust Trump’s chances to become president forth. Also, the American people generally do not have the highest education levels among high income countries, and these people are those who Trump is mainly targeting, among others, because they represent the majority of the population; 40 percent of Americans do not even start college, and only a third of Americans earn a Bachelor’s degree. Trump is aware that there are high levels of crime associated with illegal immigrants; there were 25,000 homicides by illegal immigrants and other non-citizens. Finally, his main opponent, Hillary
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The Trojan horse story is a famous parable in which multiple warriors seemingly present a gift to their enemies, but in fact use this as a method to infiltrate the enemy territory and then murder the whole town’s population, with the final result being a terrible defeat to the enemy side. Therefore, Donald Trump using this allusion has three possible connotations; the intentions of the illegal immigrants may seem to be good-hearted, but that the Americans shouldn’t be fooled by these conniving people; the result of the infiltration is an abhorrent bloodbath, which in the USA’s situation means a surrender of the workforce to unemployment; and finally, that if nothing is done, the end result will be an embarrassing defeat in which the Americans will be sorry they ever trusted the good intentions of the immigrants. All 3 of these connotations link to the previous point of Trump’s emphasis on urgency because he is saying calling upon an American support for Trump’s policies against these Illegal …show more content…
The use of imagery is effective in displaying the tangibility of this plan. There is even a contrast set up here as he creates a distinction between the evolution he has set out with his allusion and the future where his solution of building a wall takes place, convincing the American people to vote for him to avoid the bloodbath he hints at. Once again, he also uses the first plural pronoun to create a sense of unity as the American people will move forward together under his
The Trojan horse story is a famous parable in which multiple warriors seemingly present a gift to their enemies, but in fact use this as a method to infiltrate the enemy territory and then murder the whole town’s population, with the final result being a terrible defeat to the enemy side. Therefore, Donald Trump using this allusion has three possible connotations; the intentions of the illegal immigrants may seem to be good-hearted, but that the Americans shouldn’t be fooled by these conniving people; the result of the infiltration is an abhorrent bloodbath, which in the USA’s situation means a surrender of the workforce to unemployment; and finally, that if nothing is done, the end result will be an embarrassing defeat in which the Americans will be sorry they ever trusted the good intentions of the immigrants. All 3 of these connotations link to the previous point of Trump’s emphasis on urgency because he is saying calling upon an American support for Trump’s policies against these Illegal …show more content…
The use of imagery is effective in displaying the tangibility of this plan. There is even a contrast set up here as he creates a distinction between the evolution he has set out with his allusion and the future where his solution of building a wall takes place, convincing the American people to vote for him to avoid the bloodbath he hints at. Once again, he also uses the first plural pronoun to create a sense of unity as the American people will move forward together under his