Rhetorical Analysis Of Aren T I A Woman
Morgan Angus
APLaC
1/18/11
Seminar Alternate
Aren’t I a Women?
Sojourner Truth became the strongest symbol of African American women during an era where both sexism and racism were prominent issues. Her life was not easy. She was sold into slavery several times. Her family and friends were constantly taken away from her and sold into slavery. Sojourner Truth’s use of appeals, repetition, and rhetorical questions in her speech “Aren’t I a Women?” illuminates her women’s rights argument.
Truth establishes ethos, or credibility, through her strong presence to the reader. She talks to a man in the speech who says women cannot be equal to men because “Christ wasn’t a woman” (424). As she makes a strong point about where God came from in
APLaC
1/18/11
Seminar Alternate
Aren’t I a Women?
Sojourner Truth became the strongest symbol of African American women during an era where both sexism and racism were prominent issues. Her life was not easy. She was sold into slavery several times. Her family and friends were constantly taken away from her and sold into slavery. Sojourner Truth’s use of appeals, repetition, and rhetorical questions in her speech “Aren’t I a Women?” illuminates her women’s rights argument.
Truth establishes ethos, or credibility, through her strong presence to the reader. She talks to a man in the speech who says women cannot be equal to men because “Christ wasn’t a woman” (424). As she makes a strong point about where God came from in