Cesar Chavez
Labor Union Organizer and Civil Rights leader, Cesar Chavez, in his article, “He showed us the way,” he argues and defends nonviolence as a powerful idea to achieve equality. Chavez’s purpose is to prove the goodness of nonviolence and how responding with it can lead to good and no violence. He achieves his purpose by using logos, imagery, and allusion in order to appeal to the readers and giving a wider image of his argument about nonviolent resistance.
Cesar Chavez begins his article by going back to Martin Luther King Jr. and how his nonviolent protest could bring out many people and how it inspired many philosophers and gives us the opportunity to relive how our struggles have come along and how we have grown. He uses logos to show if one thing happens there will be a result, is revealed when he says, “... one of two things will happen: either the violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths on both sides, or there will be total demoralization of the workers,” in this quote, he is explaining what are the possibilities if we keep resorting to violence, which helps the speaker achieve his purpose of trying to relate or appeal to the reader to understand, THis rhetorical strategy is also used when he says, “The greater the oppression, the more leverage nonviolence holds. Violence does not work in the long run and if it is temporarily successful, it replaces one violent form of power with another just as violent. People suffer from violence.” This quote helps the speaker explain his point of; there is lots of oppression starting with nonviolence will be more effective in the long run better than using violence because it lingers and people tend to suffer. This allows us readers to feel relatable to the argument and to help.
Chavez then explains in the middle of his article of what he advocates and what freedoms he fights for in farm workers. He then relies on imagery to give a bigger picture for the reader to have a deeper meaning of what he views, is revealed when he says, “The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.” Chavez is not literally saying the burdens are laying in the fields, he says that workers in farms have made a deep impact in nonviolence that it is just in the soil and the fields they have fought and worked on. If his work isn't achieved, people will then look to shortcut to fix it. The rhetorical device is used when he says, “... we are willing to wait, in this sense, time is our ally.” This quote helped the speaker because he gives us a deeper meaning of time and how it will work in all cases and its importance. We have to be patient for things to occur and take place, everyone has time so we are willing to wait for good.
In Cesar Chavez’s article he proceeds to justify if the power of nonviolence by alluding to some historical people. More specifically, he explains ways of getting lots of people to join and fight in the cause. One example of this is, “The Boycott, as Handh taught, is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change, allowing masses of people to participate actively in a cause.” In this quote he alludes Gandhi a s an example of someone who used non-violence in his boycott, allowing people to be apart of it without the use of violence to fight for their cause, which helps the speaker give an example to the reader of another big aspect to look at. The rhetorical device is also used when Chavez says, “ Examine history… the poor, the workers, the people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it.” Chavez isn’t directly quoting anyone, he is indirectly pointing out people in history who have fought against oppression, on their homelands, and fought for equality. The quote helps the speaker gain the purpose of showing the history of us and how we have always been fighting for the better and jor justice and equality. This affects us and those who have been affected because it takes back to the past and how barely anything changed and no one is still not doing anything big about it.
In the article, “He Showed Us the Way,” Chavez shows he is a legitimate figure in what he is fighting for, in his cause, and the claims he puts forth. He indirectly and directly pointe dout history in order to show the importance of non-violence. Chavez’s urgency to gith and keep fighting for no-violence resistance really shows by ihs strong appeals to logs. His use of imagery brings out a more understanding view of his views and points made. By bringing out appeals and emotion to the past he wants us to take action in non-violent protest and to cherish what Martin Luther King Jr’s ultimate goal to bring about a better world for those who go go through injustices and to make the future of America equal and great.
Labor Union Organizer and Civil Rights leader, Cesar Chavez, in his article, “He showed us the way,” he argues and defends nonviolence as a powerful idea to achieve equality. Chavez’s purpose is to prove the goodness of nonviolence and how responding with it can lead to good and no violence. He achieves his purpose by using logos, imagery, and allusion in order to appeal to the readers and giving a wider image of his argument about nonviolent resistance.
Cesar Chavez begins his article by going back to Martin Luther King Jr. and how his nonviolent protest could bring out many people and how it inspired many philosophers and gives us the opportunity to relive how our struggles have come along and how we have grown. He uses logos to show if one thing happens there will be a result, is revealed when he says, “... one of two things will happen: either the violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths on both sides, or there will be total demoralization of the workers,” in this quote, he is explaining what are the possibilities if we keep resorting to violence, which helps the speaker achieve his purpose of trying to relate or appeal to the reader to understand, THis rhetorical strategy is also used when he says, “The greater the oppression, the more leverage nonviolence holds. Violence does not work in the long run and if it is temporarily successful, it replaces one violent form of power with another just as violent. People suffer from violence.” This quote helps the speaker explain his point of; there is lots of oppression starting with nonviolence will be more effective in the long run better than using violence because it lingers and people tend to suffer. This allows us readers to feel relatable to the argument and to help.
Chavez then explains in the middle of his article of what he advocates and what freedoms he fights for in farm workers. He then relies on imagery to give a bigger picture for the reader to have a deeper meaning of what he views, is revealed when he says, “The burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America.” Chavez is not literally saying the burdens are laying in the fields, he says that workers in farms have made a deep impact in nonviolence that it is just in the soil and the fields they have fought and worked on. If his work isn't achieved, people will then look to shortcut to fix it. The rhetorical device is used when he says, “... we are willing to wait, in this sense, time is our ally.” This quote helped the speaker because he gives us a deeper meaning of time and how it will work in all cases and its importance. We have to be patient for things to occur and take place, everyone has time so we are willing to wait for good.
In Cesar Chavez’s article he proceeds to justify if the power of nonviolence by alluding to some historical people. More specifically, he explains ways of getting lots of people to join and fight in the cause. One example of this is, “The Boycott, as Handh taught, is the most nearly perfect instrument of nonviolent change, allowing masses of people to participate actively in a cause.” In this quote he alludes Gandhi a s an example of someone who used non-violence in his boycott, allowing people to be apart of it without the use of violence to fight for their cause, which helps the speaker give an example to the reader of another big aspect to look at. The rhetorical device is also used when Chavez says, “ Examine history… the poor, the workers, the people of the land are the ones who give their bodies and don’t really gain that much for it.” Chavez isn’t directly quoting anyone, he is indirectly pointing out people in history who have fought against oppression, on their homelands, and fought for equality. The quote helps the speaker gain the purpose of showing the history of us and how we have always been fighting for the better and jor justice and equality. This affects us and those who have been affected because it takes back to the past and how barely anything changed and no one is still not doing anything big about it.
In the article, “He Showed Us the Way,” Chavez shows he is a legitimate figure in what he is fighting for, in his cause, and the claims he puts forth. He indirectly and directly pointe dout history in order to show the importance of non-violence. Chavez’s urgency to gith and keep fighting for no-violence resistance really shows by ihs strong appeals to logs. His use of imagery brings out a more understanding view of his views and points made. By bringing out appeals and emotion to the past he wants us to take action in non-violent protest and to cherish what Martin Luther King Jr’s ultimate goal to bring about a better world for those who go go through injustices and to make the future of America equal and great.