Rhetorical Analysis Of Steve Jobs Stay Hungry Stay Foolish

“Stay hungry, stay foolish” (Jobs, 2005, 14:12), these words from Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement address are a summation of all three narrative accounts in his speech. Mr. Jobs’s used narrative accounts to deliver a strong message to the 2005 Stanford graduating class. According to Dr. Stoda, (2012), “narrative accounts are offered as explanatory stories” (p.200). They paint verbal pictures and invoke the audiences imagination and use belly rationality. Within Steve Jobs’ speech he constructed reported accounts, relatable allegories, and recounted anecdotes. His theme “stay hungry, stay foolish” (Jobs, 2005, 14:12), was consistent throughout his accounts. The definition of foolish not only means lack of sense or unwise, but also means lacking forethought or caution, I believe what Steve Jobs

205). Steve Jobs was extremely effective in his persuasive appeal, his reported accounts were arranged in chronological order starting from his birth to his “almost” death. His narratives also conveyed relatable allegories, describing life-lessons such as; stay hungry, stay foolish, find what you love and follow your heart. He also communicated recounted anecdotes that retold his personal experience. Steve Jobs carries and extensive about of credibility, ethos, his success speaks for itself. He created a fleeting opportunity with his pathos scarcity cue when he told the class, they are the new but soon they would be brushed aside and to take advantage of the time they had. Steve Jobs’ similitudic evidence in his argument of signification was delivered to his audience in a coherent, congruent, splintery, evocative and implicative way. He used narrative accounts that touched the hearts of the audience, and his theme stay hungry, stay foolish has a new meaning to me as wish the same for my children as they venture out into the