![]() ![]() ![]() This structure allows him to talk about different and varying points while still connecting them to his overall point of finding “what you love to do.”Ĭreating this structure connects three stories with three varying messages. If he were to just spill his points out in random times and in random moments, there would be no connection between them. The execution of this allows him to make his points and connect his arguments in an organized and systematic manner. He sets it up topically by including three stories. The biggest element of his speech that makes it connective and rhetorically sound is the structure of it. People can relate to cancer and they can understand where he is coming from. ![]() When trying to prove a point of why time is precious and death can happen at any time, it is essential that he connects his message emotionally with the audience. This again brings emotion back into the picture he becomes even more connected with his audience. Either they know someone who has cancer, has had cancer themselves, or has read about cancer somewhere. This creates another argument for pathos. He told the audience how he was diagnosed with cancer. Now, they not only want to strive to become him, but have connected with him emotionally. They remember the emotions he must have felt when he lost the company “that spent most of his adult life building.” This emotional connection only deepens the relationship he has already built with his audience. Any audience, whether it be Stanford’s graduating class of 2005, or a group of random people at Penn State, everybody can relate to failure. He tells the story of how he was fired from Apple. Sharing his hardships and developing his persona not only creates a rhetorical backing of ethos, but a rhetorical argument of pathos. The audience only knows a successful man standing on that stage, not the humble one that is willing to admit the road has been tough. ![]() Developing this persona not only creates an argument of ethos, but allows him to win his audience over. He breaks down the wall of the marginal thinking that successful people have just been lucky and have reached the point they are at in their lives because they were handed things on a silver platter. If the fact that he was famous didn’t make the audience listen to him, making himself seem more “human” will. Developing this persona allows him to connect with his audience even more.īy describing his life events, he creates a person someone would want to become. He is known as a successful man and role model already. When trying to teach the audience that failure can sometimes be good, these are important pieces of his persona to establish. He makes himself out to be a person who carries on even in the darkest of times and who has overcome many obstacles when things didn’t look good. Through his stories, he creates a persona for himself. Even though this is all he offers, it creates rhetorical backing in ethos. In most arguments today, facts are given to support claims however, in Jobs’ case, he presents only his opinion and history as evidence. Specifically through his ethos, pathos, and structure of his speech, Jobs’ rhetorically backs his arguments. What does that mean exactly? His rhetoric used must have created some link between his message and the intended audience. “Stay hungry, stay foolish.” That is a quote that has been taken from Steve Jobs’ speech he gave to Stanford’s graduating class of 2005. Throughout time, speeches have been remembered because of how they connected with their audiences: “Ask not what you can do for your country, but what your country can do for you.” “I have a dream…” The message that was presented to the listeners of these two famous speeches was presented in a rhetorical manner in which it associated with the people and has lasted through time. It think I have the ideas and points down, but I don’t think I developed them as clearly as I could have. If you could give me advice on how to connect my thoughts more clearly, I would greatly appreciate it. Note: I don’t think that this flows well. ![]()
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