A Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By David Blaine

His appreence in the speech is that he is wearing a sweater, t-shirt, and jeans. His facial expression is showing no emotions at all. As I have been following David Blaine, I can say that, that is his common face. He doesn’t show too many emotions and except stays in a very serious face unless he makes a joke. When he makes a joke he has a small smile. David however, does use hand gesters while giving his speech. In his speech there is a lot of monotone. He doesn’t show too many emotions. David only had pauses when he went to drink water. Otherwise he didn’t have pauses that were noticable. You can tell he had practiced the speech because he didn’t have ums or uhs. He had many jokes in his speech including one that mentioned that his only competition in holding breath was a beaver. His
David Blaine is one of the most daring magicians who performs impracticable acts that no other human would dare to try. In his speech he describes how he held his breath for 17 minutes and talks about his other stuns. Not only has he buried himself alive twice, but he has also frozen himself in ice and lived to tell the story. He tells us one of the stories about him trying to hold his breath and how he consulted docotrs about how he should go about this. The doctor told him that he is a magician and to make it an illusion, but David didn’t want to do that because his idol Harry Houdine was able to hold his breath. David also did research on pearl divers to see how they hold their breath for so long. He even mentions how he called Opraha for her to have him break the record on her show. He even talks about how the old record holders before him heard that he was trying to break their