Go To The Moon Speech Analysis
Freddy Cornejo
Professor Burleson
ENGL 1301.01
27 April 2016
“We mean to lead it”
During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first artificial satellite from Earth, Sputnik. The successful launch of the Soviet satellite raised fear among the American People over the perceived technological difference between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States followed suit in the Space Race largely in part to quell the notion that American innovation and ingenuity had fallen behind that of the Soviet Union and show to the world that America is better at accomplishing what was thought to be the impossible. On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered an address to some 35,000 people that had gathered at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. President Kennedy’s usage of diction, device, and structure in his “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort” commonly referred to as the “We choose to go to the Moon” speech helps convey President Kennedy’s attempt at persuading the American people to support the nations space effort and ultimately land a man on the moon and bring him back safely.
Through President Kennedy’s word choice in his “Address at Rice University,” he was able to appeal to the emotions and concerns of the American People who had been entangled with an increasing fear of …show more content…
He poses a set of rhetorical questions that builds up his reasoning as to the why “we choose to go to the moon” before the public, “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? (Kennedy)” In doing so he establishes a connection with the audience at Rice University and also acknowledges that his audience lives in an age of exploration one that discovers new
Professor Burleson
ENGL 1301.01
27 April 2016
“We mean to lead it”
During the height of the Cold War, the Soviet Union had successfully launched the first artificial satellite from Earth, Sputnik. The successful launch of the Soviet satellite raised fear among the American People over the perceived technological difference between the United States and the Soviet Union. The United States followed suit in the Space Race largely in part to quell the notion that American innovation and ingenuity had fallen behind that of the Soviet Union and show to the world that America is better at accomplishing what was thought to be the impossible. On September 12, 1962, President John F. Kennedy delivered an address to some 35,000 people that had gathered at Rice Stadium in Houston, Texas. President Kennedy’s usage of diction, device, and structure in his “Address at Rice University on the Nation’s Space Effort” commonly referred to as the “We choose to go to the Moon” speech helps convey President Kennedy’s attempt at persuading the American people to support the nations space effort and ultimately land a man on the moon and bring him back safely.
Through President Kennedy’s word choice in his “Address at Rice University,” he was able to appeal to the emotions and concerns of the American People who had been entangled with an increasing fear of …show more content…
He poses a set of rhetorical questions that builds up his reasoning as to the why “we choose to go to the moon” before the public, “But why, some say, the moon? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask why climb the highest mountain? Why, 35 years ago, fly the Atlantic? Why does Rice play Texas? (Kennedy)” In doing so he establishes a connection with the audience at Rice University and also acknowledges that his audience lives in an age of exploration one that discovers new