What Is Obama's Intention To Unify American People As One Nation?
In this part of the speech, Barack Obama’s intention is to unify the American people as one nation. He wants to make them proud of being American. The target audience in this speech is therefore all Americans, who don’t feel like they are a part of America, but it’s focus is also on the group of people that already think USA is a great country that can defeat anything. The focus is also on them, to make them feel even more proud to be American and to unify them even more.
In the speech Obama uses pronouns like we and ours a lot, which he does to indicate that USA is one united nation, and what one person or a number of persons have done or do, every Americans have done, because they are all considered one people.
Obama also uses repetitions
a lot for instance “In the face of tyranny… In the face of secession… In the face of Depression” (lines 17-21). He uses this kind of repetition to show that America has overcome and defeated many things such as tyranny, secession and Depression, and that they can do it again if they stand together as one united nation. Obama also mentions Abraham Lincoln to include some of the shared American history to make people think: “America did raise some very good people, and if we have done it once, then we can do it again. “
Obama ends this part of the speech with ‘- as Americans’ to make a final statement to unify the people and make them feel proud to be an American.
In the speech Obama uses pronouns like we and ours a lot, which he does to indicate that USA is one united nation, and what one person or a number of persons have done or do, every Americans have done, because they are all considered one people.
Obama also uses repetitions
a lot for instance “In the face of tyranny… In the face of secession… In the face of Depression” (lines 17-21). He uses this kind of repetition to show that America has overcome and defeated many things such as tyranny, secession and Depression, and that they can do it again if they stand together as one united nation. Obama also mentions Abraham Lincoln to include some of the shared American history to make people think: “America did raise some very good people, and if we have done it once, then we can do it again. “
Obama ends this part of the speech with ‘- as Americans’ to make a final statement to unify the people and make them feel proud to be an American.