Rhetorical Analysis Of Florence Kelley's Speech Regarding Child Labor

By using emotions, Kelley is able to touch a much more personal side of the audience and evoke feelings and connectedness. Therefore, Kelley can motivate the audience and interject her position into the audience's thoughts. For example when Kelley states, “A little girl, on her thirteenth birthday could start away from her home at half past five in the afternoon..”, she uses vivid imagery to convey emotions and feelings to the audience. Especially when Kelley uses “little girl” throughout her speech, it makes the audience experience pity and sorrow. This also stirs up a sort of inspiration within the audience to put a stop to child labor and take a stand. Another example of Kelley using emotions to portray the topic is when she states, “Tonight while we sleep, thousand little girls will be working in textile mills…”. In this line, Kelley again appeals to the audience's emotions by using “little girl” and imagery. She also makes the audience feel guilt, for allowing a little girl work very late hours. By using this rhetorical strategy, Kelley is able to develop an emotional connection with the

In the speech about child labor, Florence Kelly uses rhetorical devices such as appealing to logos, metaphors, repetition and parallel structure to enforce her message that young children should not work endless hours but men and women should instead.

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Child labor was a shameful problem in our country from 1832 to 1938. Child labor existed in most states including many in the North and South, each state with different rules. Some states require night-time work and more than 8 hours of labor, while some states are more respectful. There were multiple people against child labor, but one of the most famous would be Florence Kelley. Florence Kelley was a progressive, suffragette, social worker, and one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People who was born in Philadelphia in 1859. She was a strong and successful voice during the child labor movement. She gave a speech at the convention for the National American Woman Suffrage Association in Philadelphia

In Florence Kelley’s speech to the convention of the National American Woman Suffrage Association, Kelley's use of rhetorical devices, and empowering tone of the piece establishes a call to action with a clear goal in mind, unification to put an end to child labor. Kelley's use of pathos, in which she makes the audience feel guilty by stating that, “no one in this room tonight can feel free from such participation”. Kelley makes all of the women, including herself, held accountable for the issue at hand, child labor laws, and for a solution, which she later proposes. Kelley’s audience is all female, by Kelley’s repetition of the phrases, “young girl”, “little girl”, and “white girls” she establishes a parallel between the audience, who are all women.

On July 22nd 1905, Florence Kelley-a social worker-was speaking at the National American Woman Suffrage Association in hopes of gaining support for restriction on child labor and better conditions for working women. In the angry and passionate speech, Florence Kelley utilizes rhetorical appeals, repetition, and rhetorical questions in order to assert the problems with child labor to the adults and officials of America.

Speaking at the National American Woman Suffrage Association convention, Florence Kelley voiced her opinion on child labor to her audience. The rhetorical strategies Kelley used to appeal to her audience included repetition, parallel structure and oxymorons. Kelley exercised with the use of parallel structure and repetition in her speech to show that age nor gender mattered in the workforce and many children were suffering because of this. When she says, “Men increase, women increase, youth increase, boys increase in ranks of breadwinners.” , it shows how age is not relevant in the workforce and how any age was appropriate for work not matter what the job was (Lines 10-11).

Florence Kelley, who was a former social worker, and successfully fought for child labor laws, delivered a speech concerning the labor of children at that time. Before the National American Women Suffrage Association, in Philadelphia on July 22, 1905 she talks about how child labor is wrong, and children shouldn’t be doing the work of adults. Kelley also explains the hours the children work, and how people (at that time) should stand up for them. Kelley uses pathos, logos, and repetition to persuade the audience.

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Emma Gonzales, a senior at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School read a very inspiring speech towards lawmakers and gun advocates. Emma wrote this speech and gave it at a rally to try and get to President Trump and tell everyone it's basically his fault and to make a stop to selling guns to mentally ill people and people that dont need them. Emma created this speech to persuade the audience at the rally of how a school shooter costed her school to lose 17 students and some of them were even teachers. Using the rhetorical appeals to show emotion and showing that these students experienced this tragic event, Emma even shaved her head to show she was grieving. She uses emotion and logic to show emotion and sadness towards the

In our generation, subjects such as child labor no longer exist, and we can thank our ancestors for this, But the question remains, what was society like when such an evil act was embedded into the norms? Florence Kelley, social worker and reformer, presented a speech that urged citizens to ban child labor; the speech vocalized how evil this act was and uses many examples to appeal to one’s emotions and morality. Right off the bat, Kelley asserts, “... Children under the age of sixteen years who are earning their bread,” which appeals to the reader’s logic and reasoning as well as inform the reader.

Kelley wants to pass child labor laws to improve the lives of working children; in doing so she goes into detail describing the horrors children face while working. To emphasize her argument Kelley uses facts, appeals to emotions and syntax to prove to the NAWSA that child labor is awful and there must be laws in place to protect them.

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The strong contrast between the dream and the reality makes people feel upset and heartbreaking because we see these children still have to undertake much what they are not supposed to bear. Nevertheless, what upsets people more was the fact that these chimney sweeper accept their current fate happily with a hope that future will be better if they obey the rule and do their duty. However, the fact is that the circumstances have no hope of freedom from this oppression if they don’t take any action. Therefore, this is an anesthetization in mind because, in this way, workers and the weak would not unite to stand against the inhuman conditions forced upon them. Blake here critiques not just the deplorable conditions of the children sold into chimney sweeping, but also the society, and particularly its religious aspect that would offer these children palliatives rather than aid. That the speaker and Tom Dacre gets up from the vision to head back into their dangerous drudgery suggests that these children cannot help themselves, so it is left to responsible, sensitive adults to do something for them.