Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Got To Find What You Love

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In the speech “You’ve Got to Find What You Love” by Steve Jobs he talks to college students. His main purpose of the speech is to motivate college student to find work that they love. Steve Jobs does a good job in capturing his audience's attention, however, with the stories that he uses he doesn't provide enough evidence for them to be accurate. Can his speech not have accuracy but still achieve its goal?
In the speech “You’ve Got to Find What You Love” by Steve Jobs he motivates students to find work that they enjoy doing. He uses several stories and examples from his life to show how he got to do what he loved. In one story he explains how he got fired from Apple (Stanford Report). He states “I had been rejected but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.” This showed the students that even though he was fired he was still going to pursue what he loved (Stanford Report).
Steve Jobs did a good job at keeping his audience interested. He uses stories from his life such as being adopted to to help keep the interest of his audience (Stanford Report). Some may be able to relate to his stories, so the speech will have a bigger impact on them and because of that they will be more …show more content…

With his stories he doesn’t give any sources or evidence that can help prove to the audience that the stories that he is supplying to them are accurate. Two out of the three stories are first hand accounts, however, the first story that Jobs gives is from right after he was born. He states “It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate, and she decided to put me up for adoption” (Stanford Report). He wouldn’t have any recollection of this stage in his life, therefore, he doesn't know that this story is completely

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