Visual Rhetoric Project Analysis

Even though children are innocent, more than 675,000 are victims of abuse and neglect. Because of rude and harsh comments, four children die every day. When older people purposely harm any child, it does not matter what age, race, or sex because a child is just a child and they contain no skills whatsoever to avoid said situation. All the children who get held back from going forward by the hands of abuse, die under the age of four or three because they have no motivation to keep striving for their life goals. When the public receives this picture, they immediately feel sympathy for the children, but do not pursue any means of action to stop the problem. Even now, they do not realize that these kids are fearful and cannot speak up for themselves …show more content…
It can show us that words and comments, no matter what they are, can suffocate children very effortlessly. The initial message of this piece is to show the whole world how children are hurt and affected by abuse on a daily basis by adults. The target audience for this visual rhetoric is for anyone who knows or at least sees this image and they know they can help by taking action against the people who are provoking these comments and actions against all the innocent children off the world. The exigence of this picture is the help we need to provide to these children who are too young to know how to react to the harm being done to them. When these children get hurt, they think something bad happened because of them and later receive the painful consequences. However, when the child knows they are innocent and did nothing bad, they end up still being hurt as if they provoked …show more content…
With this specific image, the rhetorical appeal is pathos because of the emotional value and sorrow it provides. Ethos and logos are not strong enough to fit into this image but can work with many other visual rhetoric pieces. Going into rhetorical fallacies, two of the many types stand out while analyzing this situation. Post hoc and appeal to pity are the most relevant to this image because of their basic definition and the meaning behind the visual rhetoric attaches the two together. Post hoc for example, in this situation can be implied how the people’s comments causes the child’s fear, pain, and loss of trust. In fact, the child being strangled by the harsh comments can tie into the rhetorical appeals which can mainly be post hoc. As a generic example we can say when a baby is allowed to walk around freely with no supervision, the baby tends to touch stuff that is easily breakable or tempting to touch that can harm either the baby or anyone else in that area. Therefore, both of these examples can fit under post hoc. Appeal to pity makes people believe a conclusion with sympathy which in this case, is accurate for the visual rhetoric itself because it makes people feel pity or the urge to be sympathetic for the