Rhetorical Analysis: Drunk Driving

Corey Friedman’s Lawmakers Target Drunk Drivers, appeared in North Carolina’s “Wilsons Daily Times” on February 18, 2013. In his essay, Friedman, explains new bills and laws that are trying to get passed by North Carolina’s congress. They will target and prevent drunk driving across the state by developing harsher laws and consequences for those found guilty of these offenses. Friedman uses many different perspectives on the issue by restating various North Carolina state representatives, and various group advocates among Mothers Against Drunk Driving (MADD). These many opinions on the new bills proposed to the North Carolina state legislature proved significant recognition of the issue by many across the state along with Friedman. Friedman begins his article by making a statement that expresses that the North Carolina legislators and representatives acknowledge drunk driving as an issue in North Carolina, and are developing laws and bills aimed to remove and prevent drunk driving from our North Carolina roads and highways. I believe Friedman began his article this way to prove that there is an issue at hand, and there are multiple people working together to target and resolve this issue across the state. It also shows a value of importance by expressing such a significant issue in the very beginning of the article that targets many others across the state and country, furthermore acknowledging those effected by drunk driving and prove their opinions throughout his article. He starts off on a serious note, which grabs his audiences’ attention throughout his article and persuades his audience to really capture the issue at hand and almost force empathy upon the readers. This helps persuade the audience to make a difference by providing them knowledge of current state legislation’s various new proposals on the topic along and the many opinions with in the legislation. This way the audience can develop their opinion, become an advocate and express themselves and