Rhetorical Analysis Of Khan's Speech

In the introduction of his speech, Khan first introduce himself as an “aging movie star” who resonates with the challenges of humanity today. Within the first two minutes of the speech, Khan claims, “Humanity, its an aging movie star, grappling with newness around itself, wondering whether it got it right in the first place, and trying to find a way to keep on shinning regardless.” He states his topic and his thesis in the introduction which gave the audience a glimpse of what he is going to talk about. Khan organized his speech in a chronological order. A book entitled, “A Concise Public Speaking Handbook” by Steven and Sunsan Beebe states, “Chronological organization is organization by time or sequence; your steps are ordered according to when each occurred or should occur” (98). Khan’s strategy of organizing his speech chronologically allowed his readers to easily follow his argument. In his early twenties, Khan shared how both of his parents passed away, which gave him motivation to find his way to survival. Until, his late twenties, Khan moved to Mumbai to seek a better future for himself. Through this opportunity Khan found his creativity, which gave him his stardom in his forties. In his forties, Khan talked about all his achievements and opened his topic more as he also talked about the internet.

According to “A Concise Public Speaking Handbook” by Steven and Sunsan Beebe, “A speech organized to show cause and effect might first identify a situation and discuss the effects that results from it” (99). This is clearly shown in Khan speech as he talks about the cause of internet and its effect in humanity. Khan believes that internet is the source of humanity’s self-obsession. Because of this self-obsession, Khan believes that people forget that the world is solely not about them, but there are also other people who are in