Rhetorical Analysis Of You Are Not Special By David Mccullough
Life as an experience not an accomplishment
In the new economy of the information age, you need to be a game changer in a world full of players in order to accomplish more than others to be more successful than others. This leads us to always be obsessing with the end results and with what we get out of everything that we do.
As a result this is what David McCullough’s speech was about; the fact that everyone in society is only caring about their successes and being number one that it takes what it means to be truly successful out of context and changes it to being successful just for the sake of winning and accomplishing. David McCullough was effective in delivering his argument in his speech “You’re not special” written for a graduating class in 2012. He uses pathos and deliberate choice of diction to get through to the audience, meaningful analogies to develop his argument, and powerful antitheses to illustrate his arguments.
McCullough is effective in delivering his argument through developing the audience’s emotions with pathos and his choice of diction. He says that“[…] our own detriment […] to love accolades more than genuine achievement …show more content…
McCullough illustrates this through the use of antitheses that it is only then that people will be able to achieve what is truly self actualization.
In a world where to be number one, you need to be the odd one, David McCullough’s “You’re not perfect” directed towards a graduating class in 2012, is able to be an effective speech through the use of pathos, analogies, and antithesis to indoctrinate his audience in how to live life to the fullest and how not to always focus on all the little fundamental things in life and to view life as if it were to be lived, and not like a race to be
In the new economy of the information age, you need to be a game changer in a world full of players in order to accomplish more than others to be more successful than others. This leads us to always be obsessing with the end results and with what we get out of everything that we do.
As a result this is what David McCullough’s speech was about; the fact that everyone in society is only caring about their successes and being number one that it takes what it means to be truly successful out of context and changes it to being successful just for the sake of winning and accomplishing. David McCullough was effective in delivering his argument in his speech “You’re not special” written for a graduating class in 2012. He uses pathos and deliberate choice of diction to get through to the audience, meaningful analogies to develop his argument, and powerful antitheses to illustrate his arguments.
McCullough is effective in delivering his argument through developing the audience’s emotions with pathos and his choice of diction. He says that“[…] our own detriment […] to love accolades more than genuine achievement …show more content…
McCullough illustrates this through the use of antitheses that it is only then that people will be able to achieve what is truly self actualization.
In a world where to be number one, you need to be the odd one, David McCullough’s “You’re not perfect” directed towards a graduating class in 2012, is able to be an effective speech through the use of pathos, analogies, and antithesis to indoctrinate his audience in how to live life to the fullest and how not to always focus on all the little fundamental things in life and to view life as if it were to be lived, and not like a race to be