A Rhetorical Analysis Of Nelson Mandela's Life

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Purpose The purpose of this text is to educate, inform, motivate, entertain and inspire the reader about Nelson Mandela’s life, the things he achieved. The purpose of the video is to connect to the audience. It allows the audience to see, hear, and have a connection to Mandela. Images and photos the first thing that grabs our attention. The photos and photo album of Mandela have a great impact on the audience’s emotions. This is because without the photos there is no physical connection. Form The biography of Nelson Mandela is organised in the form of a website. This includes a written biography, a photo album of Nelson, other photos of him, the video ‘The narrated life and times of Nelson Mandela’, the Mandela tribute video and an audio …show more content…

This is apparent because the reader would not be reading if they were not interested in the information. The target audience must be interested in world leaders, inspirational people and human rights and the powerful people who changed the world. The audience is targeted all ages, races and religions. The audience is ‘who’ the text is aimed at. The text enlightens the audience about the unfair rights that accrued when Mandela was young and how he fights for equal …show more content…

‘He completed his Junior Certificate at Clarkebury Boarding Institute and went on to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school of some repute, where he matriculated.’ Evidence of the language motivating the audience is the quote from the Dock quote by Nelson Mandela on 20 April 1964 “I have fought against white domination, and I have fought against black domination. I have cherished the ideal of a democratic and free society in which all persons live together in harmony and with equal opportunities. It is an ideal which I hope to live for and to achieve. But if needs be, it is an ideal for which I am prepared to die.” The language used shows Mandela is different and made change e.g.

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