The Last Lecture By Randy Pausch Rhetorical Analysis

Children always have dreams that they want to achieve when they get older. However, when they get older they start to think that to achieve their dream is something impossible; therefore, they change their dream or give up on it. Randy Pausch wrote The Last Lecture to explain how he did not give up on his dream though. He wrote about his childhood dreams and even though he had cancer and knew he was going to die, he kept striving to achieve his childhood dreams. He managed to get through life achieving most of his childhood dreams. In The Last Lecture, Pausch uses pathos, ethos, and logos to persuade readers that they can achieve their childhood dreams no matter what.
Pausch uses pathos by emotionally creating a sympathetic image. Pausch says “Although my children will have a loving mother who I know will guide them through life
Pausch says “... The brick walls are there to stop the people who do not want it badly enough. They’re there to stop the other people” (Pausch and Zaslow 73). Pausch understands he cannot achieve his childhood dreams if he does not want it badly enough. Even though there could be obstacles in somebody's way it does not mean they cannot achieve their dreams, they just have to want it more to get there. Pausch clearly showed logic in this quote and showed readers they can pass obstacles in their way. Pausch’s reasonability about achieving your childhood dreams shows that he knows what he is talking about in the book.
Getting through life achieving most of your childhood dreams is something amazing. It helps people realize that they accomplished something in their life period. Pausch was dying; and still managed to achieve most of his childhood dreams. Children always have dreams that they want to achieve when they get older and Randy Pausch persuaded them to do so, using ethos, pathos, and logos. Achieving childhood dreams is not impossible, it's just time