JFK Inaugural Speech

John F. Kennedy, the 35th president of United State of America, delivered an inaugural address which later became a precious historical record. In his passionate and cogent speech, Kennedy expressed a intense message to the whole world that, peace, in fact, can be achieved as long as people have faith toward freedom, and by using several writing strategies like Using Emotion-Arousing Words, Parallelism, Anaphora and so on, he efficiently showed that not only America, but also the whole world would benefit from the peaceful land that we all expected.
One of the strongest methods of persuading people the indispensable feature of peace is J.F.K’s manipulation of the Emotion-Arousing Words. In the fifth paragraph, the word ‘pledge’ set up the mood of the following paragraph. Numerous past presidents and leaders promised their citizens and friends that the country would be prospered and would maintain friendly to
Kennedy used several Parallelism structure in his inaugural speech to convey the idea that America shall no longer be afraid of the outside, which indicated the Soviet Union, but be strong and have faith. In the fourth paragraph, J.F.K used a parallelism which started each phrase with a verb like ‘pay’, ’bear’, ’support’, ’oppose’ to indicate that Americans would strive for liberty regardless of all the hardship they might encounter. Freedom does not come to us straightforward. In the process of pursuing our ideal society, we cannot imagine those difficulties that would tear us apart. However, J.F.K used this syntax to eliminate his citizens’ doubt and deliver an intense linguistic power to the world. Freedom take price, but as long as people have believes, the Americans shall “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe” to assure the survival of liberty. This Parallelism structure would convince almost everyone that freedom is attainable, and liberty can come