Rhetorical Analysis On Challenger

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On the 28th of January 1986, it was supposed to be day of exploration and excitement but ended up being a day of sadness and tragedy. Ronald Wilson Reagan, the 40th president of the United States of America delivered a speech to the people of his nation to address them about an incident that occurred earlier that day. The space shuttle challenger exploded and broke apart, 73 seconds after its take-off sending the …show more content…

It was a time of mourning over the loss of seven space pioneers, Ronald Reagan also addresses other key political messages, during the speech. Ronald Reagan wanted to show his empathy and support for the families that were related to the challenger crew, he mentions in the speech that him and his Nancy “Pained to the core by the tragedy of the shuttle challenger. We know we share this pain with all the people of our country. This is truly a national loss”. Reagan shows empathy towards the families throughout the speech by using emotional and empathetic language. He also shows support towards NASA, as a lot of the blame, because people were pointing fingers and blaming NASA for the accident and anger and emotion was also directed at NASA. Reagan diverts this blame and anger into empathy and support to his people. Reagan shows support for the future space programs and wanted NASA to further their progress and exploration in the space program. Before he speaks about NASA, he changes his tone and language to briefly talks to the children and he tries to comfort them by honouring the bravery of the challenger seven and calling them heroes. After, Reagan briefly mentions the USSR (the Russian space agency), when he says “we do not hide our space program. We don’t keep secrets and cover things up”. He never mentions the Russians, but it is really clear that he is talking about …show more content…

the facility of 3 is employed within the speech multiple times, that demands the audience’s attention and adds emphasises on key sentences. This repetition of 3 may be a common literature technique and utilized in different celebrated political speeches (e.g. Hitler’s speeches), as repetition extremely drives their purpose through. United States President additionally uses tiny and sharp sentences to grab the audience’s attention, these short sentences are terribly effective, a key example of 1 during this speech is “We mourn their loss as a nation together”. This sentence leaves a dramatic result on the audience. affective language is predominant throughout the whole thing of the speech. affective words and phrases are wanting to connect with the audience and to indicate support, samples of affective language within the speech are, mourn, our loss, and tragedy, of these words and phrases have a deep result on the audience. As key purpose of the speech is to unite the country and mourn the loss of seven space pioneers, inclusive words like, our, we and us, are wont to unite the state very tough time. (also change what’s written above make it sound better) Throughout Reagan’s speech he manages to connect with his audience through his personal emotive language, by using words such as I. Another example is when he say’s “Nancy and I are pained

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