'A Rhetorical Analysis Of Sojourner Truths'

Sojourner Truths speech is one full of impact and energy. She talks about how women do not need men's help in their everyday life, and can manage quite well on their own. Told by a man in the audience that women need to be helped all the time and given the best of the best, Sojourner snaps and reprimands him by saying that she is a woman yet she has received none of that from men yet she still managed on her own. Her grief is noticeable especially when she mentions that most of her thirteen children have been sold off to slavery. Sojourner has endured so much, from her children being sold to slavery, to her working hard under the rays of the sun for money. She has done just as much as a man can if not even more! Standing strong even under all the pressure, Sojourner is the pride of many. She is also a black woman, that means a lot especially at that time because women had little to no rights in her time and black people
York kissed Suffolk on the lips and Exeter says he turned away when he started crying. He (Exeter) says that the interaction between York and Suffolk forced the waters out of him which he would have stopped but he wasn’t 'man' enough. Crying does not reduce masculinity in any shape or form. Men should be able to cry when they want to; it is absolutely not a sign of weakness. Exeter says "And all my mother came to mine eyes", men are created from both women and men so he is referring to the fact that his mother lives inside him therefore it was her essence that made him cry rather than himself. Crying is the shedding of tears in response to an emotional state, yet some people perceive it as a feminine thing when it is part of the nature of a human being. In no way does it make you less of a 'man', whatever a man means these days anyways. Society has lost the true meaning of man and has associated it with power and robot like