Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Florence Kelley

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On July 22, 1905 Florence Kelley gave a powerful speech on child labor. She used her strong language and passionate tone to help get her point across to the National American Women Suffrage convention in Philadelphia. Kelley is trying to make the audience feel sympathy towards the children. When she stresses that “tonight while [they] sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textmills…” she is trying to guilt them. Kelley points out how they are “little girls”; consequently, having the audience feel shameful for allowing that to happen. Kelley goes on by describing a children in these factories. She mentions a girl “just tall enough to reach the bobbins” to give the audience an image of what is going on behind the walls of

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