Rhetorical Analysis Of Violent Protests By Cesar Chavez

Influential labor union organizer and civil rights leader Cesar Chaves’s facilitates compelling claims through the use of rhetorical devices in his article. Chavez utilizes diction to convey his passion toward the subject, he also uses several anecdotes to support his claims made toward ineffective violent protests. In addition to those devices, he uses his ethos to obtain social influence through the use of his writing. Chavez uses diction with an informative sentence structure that contains strong adjectives to establish his personal connotations regarding the wide spread inequality toward the African American race. He depicts how violent protests produce the opposite of the desired effect by stating, “When victory comes through violence, it is a victory with strings attached. If we beat the growers at the expense of violence, victory would come at the expense of injury and perhaps death.” Chavez uses this statement to

Chavez states, “Who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? 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.” This emphasizes the fact that violence is an ineffectual effort that merely distributes what they are attempting to demolish. These protesters crave equality, they crave the freedom of the people who weren’t born black, they crave fair treatment, they crave the day where they won’t be degraded solely because of the color of their skin. They recognize how crucial it is to have good character and uphold a reputation that doesn’t contradict and equate with what they are fighting with. After being oppressed for an extended amount of time, they became aware of the effects and how morally wrong this treatment is. They aren’t able to reciprocate the action because they have felt the pain and despair and wouldn’t want anybody else to feel the way they