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Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Malala Yousafzai gave a speech after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 where she sought to convince her audience to support her cause of increasing access to education. She did this in three ways: first, by connecting with the audience through sharing details about her own life and education experiences. Second, by eliciting sympathy for girls denied education through stories like that of her friend who couldn't pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Third, by appealing to history and arguing for progress using examples like the moon landing to persuade the audience that increasing access to education was an achievable goal.

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Rhetorical Analysis Essay

Malala Yousafzai gave a speech after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize in 2014 where she sought to convince her audience to support her cause of increasing access to education. She did this in three ways: first, by connecting with the audience through sharing details about her own life and education experiences. Second, by eliciting sympathy for girls denied education through stories like that of her friend who couldn't pursue her dream of becoming a doctor. Third, by appealing to history and arguing for progress using examples like the moon landing to persuade the audience that increasing access to education was an achievable goal.

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Jamal Robinson

Mr. Yerkes

English 9

March 13, 2019

Rhetorical Analysis Essay

In 2014, the Nobel peace prize was awarded to Malala Yousafzai for speaking

out against taliban and fighting for equality. After receiving the award, she gave a

speech not only to accept the prize but to also convince the audience to support her on

having more schools and less wars. She gets her points through by connecting with the

audience, explaining things from a historical sense, and having the audience feel

sympathetic for those she is fighting for.

In the first section of the speech, Malala’s goal was to get the audience to

connect with her, giving her a reason to be listened to. One way she did this was by
relating to the audience by telling them about her siblings. When she was stating all of

the different

ways she had been described as in that point in time, her last one was an annoying

bossy sister. This showed that even a nobel peace winner who survived getting shot at

by the taliban and still fought for rights was just like many other people who were just

bossy older siblings. Another way she had tried to connect with the audience was to talk

about her education. She was just like many others who had a decent learning

experience and a normal school with other kids who wore uniforms and were excited to

read and write. She then used this connection to explain how many schools were

destroyed and people were killed because of the taliban.

The middle of Malala’s speech was where she convinced the audience by getting

the audience to sympathise with her and many other girls who were being affected by

the small amount of schools and large amount of terrorism. Between the 32nd and 38th

paragraph she had said that though she is just one person, she is representing 66

million girls including her sisters who were getting threatened, kidnapped, and even

killed just for wanting to go to school. To give the audience a better understanding, she

also talked about a very close friend of hers. This friend had dreamed to be a doctor but

couldn't because at the age of 12 she was forced to get married and at 14 she had a

baby. Her main point was the reason her friend couldn't become a doctor and fulfill her

dream was because she was a girl.


The end of Malala’s speech was mainly about persuading the audience through

history. In paragraph 54 Malala talked about how 15 years prior, the world leaders set

global goals and halved the amount of kids out of schools. She then noted that their

focus was only on primary education which is why they did not reach everyone. In

paragraph 60 she used the moon landing as an example. She said “We live in the

modern age and we believe nothing is impossible. We have reached the moon 45 years

ago and maybe will soon land on mars. Then, in this 21st century, we must be able to

give every child quality education.”

In conclusion, Malala very well deserved her noble peace award and had not just

thanked the audience, but convinced them to help her go further. She did that by having

credibility, including history, and giving the audience a sense of sympathy. So we

should all support her in putting an end to inequality and putting in more schools!

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