I Dropped Out Of Reed College Rhetorical Analysis

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“I dropped out of Reed College after the first six months”. This quote came from Steve jobs when he delivered a speech at a Stanford University graduation ceremony. He came to the graduation, to deliver a speech that had an allegory to motivate people to follow their dreams and passions. Separating his life into three stories, of how he came to be successful and the obstacles that he had to overcome.
The speech begins with the first story of how he was planning to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife but then took a sharp turn when the family that was going to adopt him decided last minute that they wanted a baby girl instead. The irony of that is Steve Jobs whole entire life might have completely changed if adopted by this couple …show more content…

A short while after entering college Jobs makes an enumeration about college and how he doesn’t see the value in college anymore. Making significant points on how he still does not know what he want to do with his life and had no idea how college was going to solve that issue for him. Even after making a digression from college, he continued to drop in on classes that interested him. One class in particular will alter his future significantly. He became a poor sleeping in others dorm rooms and returning bottles for five cents, that way he could eat. Continuing to drop in on classes, he drops in on a calligraphy class that interests him. This class makes a large impact on his life ten years later. If not for dropping in on that class, his first large success the Macintosh would have not had multiple typefaces or evenly spaced font that the calligraphy class inspired him to put into the computer. Jobs makes a euphemism on how Windows copied the mac and that no personal computer would have them if it wasn’t for him. This pun creates the audience to show pathos toward to speech making them laugh. He proceeds to make an aphorism on how he couldn’t connect the dots on how that calligraphy class was going to help him, and how sometimes “you have to trust in something- your gut, destiny, life, karma whatever. He used Logos to show how this approach towards life has never let him down, using logical thinking to come to his

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