A Rhetorical Analysis Of I M Not Your Inspiration By Stella Young

Stella Young's "I'm not your inspiration" video portrays to her audience that disabled people are not to be looked at as inspiration objects, but as the human beings that they are. "We are more disabled by society, then the bodies we live in" and what Stella means by this is that society thinks of disabled people as less fortunate and the non-disabled people being her audience perceive disabled people as a motivational figure for living their lives with disabilities. Stella is trying to accomplish that the disabled want recognition not for being disabled, but for being themselves, because everyone is a human being and should be treated like any other individual. Disability shouldn't be looked at as a bad thing and what Stella means by this

Stella tells her audience, which is people who have been affected by disability, whether they have disability or not, to understand the way the disabled are being treated through her point of view. The belief behind the theory that non-disabled people undermine the disabled comes from the idea that society is treating the disabled differently, similar to the example Stella gave us about people calling her an inspiration, or how the little boy came up to expecting Stella to say something inspiring just because Stella is disabled in a wheelchair. Society looks at the disabled as one step down on the totem pole than a non-disabled person. Why do people think this then? If society is looking for an inspiration for themselves, then they want inspiration on their own lives to appreciate and understand how fortunate each and every one of themselves are for the lives they have and not being disabled. Stella Young simply wants society to know that disabled and non-disabled are the same and therefore should be treated equally. "The only disability in life is a bad attitude" said Stella Young. This exemplifies the idea that society has the problem and not the disabled. Through rhetoric we can find deeper meaning in her overall theme and other meanings by using concepts and terms of rhetoric. Rhetoric is effective or persuasive writing or speaking with a strategic technique. Stella is a rhetor in the way that she effectively persuades her audience through some techniques she uses. Some key strategies Stella uses are rhetoric reveals human motives, rhetoric seeks persuasion, rhetoric distributes power, rhetoric seeks knowledge, and kairos. Keying in on these strategies helps the reader reveal the rhetors, and more specifically in this case Stella's details and meaning behind her words, as well as see her main focus and goals on her views in "I'm not your