Rhetorical Strategies In To Kill A Mockingbird
In the two books, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, and A Time to Kill by John Grisham, they both have a trial. In the trials, they both have a girl who was raped and abused. Atticus Finch gives a speech and Carl Lee Hayley gives a speech about the situation they have faced as lawyers. Both of them use convincing rhetorical strategies to express the true story to get the people to think. In the end, the better speech that was given was was by Carl Lee Hayley.
In Carl’s speech, he has everyone close their eyes and he paints a very clear picture. He uses lots of enumerations like where the boys take the poor negro girl. Throughout his speech, the way he describes every detail and makes it so dramatic and one can see how awful the situation
is. But what really ties it all together is at the end of his speech is when he says, “Now Imagine She’s white.” This turns the whole story around. He tells the story of a girl and everyone knows she is black. Then, telling the crowd to imagine she is white makes them feel sorrow. Now they can feel more sorrow for the black girl. With Carl using this strong antithesis it really brings it all together. Hayley also includes a patho to make they crowd feel what he feels. He gets emotional and people can begin to question why he might be upset and so him saying imagine she is white they can know.
So, although in the To Kill a Mockingbird speech it provides many hyperboles and epithets, the A Time to Kill speech was much better and easier for people to understand and get. With the emotional connection, it is a prime key to what ties it all together. Which all the rhetorical strategies he uses it just is better and keeps people engaged. They both gave great speeches, but the one that was the best was by Carl Lee Hayley.
In Carl’s speech, he has everyone close their eyes and he paints a very clear picture. He uses lots of enumerations like where the boys take the poor negro girl. Throughout his speech, the way he describes every detail and makes it so dramatic and one can see how awful the situation
is. But what really ties it all together is at the end of his speech is when he says, “Now Imagine She’s white.” This turns the whole story around. He tells the story of a girl and everyone knows she is black. Then, telling the crowd to imagine she is white makes them feel sorrow. Now they can feel more sorrow for the black girl. With Carl using this strong antithesis it really brings it all together. Hayley also includes a patho to make they crowd feel what he feels. He gets emotional and people can begin to question why he might be upset and so him saying imagine she is white they can know.
So, although in the To Kill a Mockingbird speech it provides many hyperboles and epithets, the A Time to Kill speech was much better and easier for people to understand and get. With the emotional connection, it is a prime key to what ties it all together. Which all the rhetorical strategies he uses it just is better and keeps people engaged. They both gave great speeches, but the one that was the best was by Carl Lee Hayley.