During the American expansion of the 19th century, thousands of natives were killed by the Americans and many more died due to their environment. At first natives tried to fight back and reclaim their land, but as shown in the surrender speech titled "I'm tired of fighting" made by chief Joseph in 1877. In his speech, chief Joseph talks about the native's lack of enthusiasm to fight and how they just want to survive. Chief joseph shows us how exhausted of fighting he is through the use of parallelism and lots of pathos.
In the surrender speech, chief Joseph tells the audiencw just how bad the circumstances are for the natives. Many natives are dead, others are freezing to death, children are fleeing and have gone missing, people are starving and many other bad things. He stated that the natives dont have the strength or the will to fight anymore because they're barely surviving as it is. For his last words chief Joseph emphasizes how done he is fighting by stating, "From where the sun now stands I will fight no more."
There are very few devises being used in this powerful speech, One of them being parallelism. At the start of the speech, chief Joseph states he is tired of fighting and tells the audience all of the people whom are dead already. This helps clarify to the audience just how bad the situation is for the natives. However, one of the techniques he uses in this speech a lot is pathos. He tells the audience many things that are supposed to appeal to their sense of empathy and pity. He talks about all the natives that have died, all the children that have perished and the ones that are freezing to death, and the many children that are missing. All of these things together make the audience feel bad for the natives and helps them see his exhaustion.
The surrender speech, "I'm tired of fighting" shows the audience the native struggle to survive in a land that was once theirs but was taken away by people that didn't care about them. Chief joseph does an excellent job of showing the audience this struggle and sadness through his use of pathos and parallelism. This speech helps people be more empathetic towards the natives and understand that they aren't just savages, they are human.
Friday, October 26, 2018
Friday, October 12, 2018
Assertion analysis #4: Lame Deer
Native Americans are always portrayed as uncivilized savages, specially before the colonists got here. We're they really savages? They didn't have jails, delinquents, dishonesty. According to lame deer, the native Americans were perfectly fine before the colonists got here and he uses verbal irony, satire and sarcasm to show his audience his point.
Throughout the text lame deer tells the audience about the state in which native Americans were in before the colonists came. He says the native Americans didn't have most of the things that are considered "bad" in a society", such as jails, criminals and property. Although He doesn't say this directly but instead chooses to say it ironically. At the very beggining and at the end of the text it is obvious that he doesn't mean what he is saying about native Americans when he calls them "uncivilized".
Lame Deer is being ironic and sarcastic throughout the whole text. He calls native Americans "uncivilized" because they don't have the bad parts of a society. He calls white people his "brothers" despite the dact they decimated one third of the native American population. What really shows that he is being sarcastic is the first sentence of his conclusion, where he says, "we were in really bas shape before the white men arrived". He says his people were doing badly despite the fact he has been telling the audience what makes native American society better, which proves he is being satirical.
Lame deer isnt trying to put white society down. He isn't trying to make native American society seem perfect either. He is using sarcasm and irony to show the audience how blind we are being for saying native Americans are "uncivilized" which is why the title of the text is "lame deer: seeker of visions". He is telling the audience to seek to see the truth, instead of just believe what we are told.
Throughout the text lame deer tells the audience about the state in which native Americans were in before the colonists came. He says the native Americans didn't have most of the things that are considered "bad" in a society", such as jails, criminals and property. Although He doesn't say this directly but instead chooses to say it ironically. At the very beggining and at the end of the text it is obvious that he doesn't mean what he is saying about native Americans when he calls them "uncivilized".
Lame Deer is being ironic and sarcastic throughout the whole text. He calls native Americans "uncivilized" because they don't have the bad parts of a society. He calls white people his "brothers" despite the dact they decimated one third of the native American population. What really shows that he is being sarcastic is the first sentence of his conclusion, where he says, "we were in really bas shape before the white men arrived". He says his people were doing badly despite the fact he has been telling the audience what makes native American society better, which proves he is being satirical.
Lame deer isnt trying to put white society down. He isn't trying to make native American society seem perfect either. He is using sarcasm and irony to show the audience how blind we are being for saying native Americans are "uncivilized" which is why the title of the text is "lame deer: seeker of visions". He is telling the audience to seek to see the truth, instead of just believe what we are told.
Monday, October 8, 2018
Assertion analysis #3: Trump
Donald Trump, 45th president of the United States, is well known for his ambition with building a wall to keep people out of the country. Despite this ambition he gives an ironic speech called "American dream: perseverance". Throughout the speech he talks about overcoming obstacles, represented by walls. This is verbally ironic because through his campaign he talks about building a wall to stop people from coming to America. Trump tells the audience to overcome their obstacles while using simple diction and literary devises such as anaphora and epiphora to create a simple and ironic, yet interesting speech.
In his speech "American dream: perseverance", Trump talks about the obstacles in life and how we must overcome them. He refers to these obstacles as "walls". Then he tells the audience to overcome those "walls" in many different ways, such as to jump over them, go around them, and to destroy them. At the end of his speech he even contradicts himself by saying to "keep a balance" and then saying "let the positive outweigh the negative". His speech is very simple in diction and some of the things he says are either ironic or nonsensical. One of the main reason the speech is deemed ironic, and a little idiotic, is because he talks about overcoming "walls" even though most of his campaign was based upon building an anti-immigrant wall.
Throughout many parts of his speech he uses epiphora and anaphora. He uses it so much that it is present in more sentences than not.he he uses this to make his words, and therefore his idea, stuck to the reader. The whole text is also very ironic. Trump talks about overcoming walls, but he wants to put up a wall.
Trump uses anaphora and epiphora to get his message to his audience. Along with those literary devises he also uses very simple diction in order to widen his audience. Despite all of this is message is ironic and borderline idiotic considering he tells us to do the exact opposite of what his career stands for, keeping people out.
In his speech "American dream: perseverance", Trump talks about the obstacles in life and how we must overcome them. He refers to these obstacles as "walls". Then he tells the audience to overcome those "walls" in many different ways, such as to jump over them, go around them, and to destroy them. At the end of his speech he even contradicts himself by saying to "keep a balance" and then saying "let the positive outweigh the negative". His speech is very simple in diction and some of the things he says are either ironic or nonsensical. One of the main reason the speech is deemed ironic, and a little idiotic, is because he talks about overcoming "walls" even though most of his campaign was based upon building an anti-immigrant wall.
Throughout many parts of his speech he uses epiphora and anaphora. He uses it so much that it is present in more sentences than not.he he uses this to make his words, and therefore his idea, stuck to the reader. The whole text is also very ironic. Trump talks about overcoming walls, but he wants to put up a wall.
Trump uses anaphora and epiphora to get his message to his audience. Along with those literary devises he also uses very simple diction in order to widen his audience. Despite all of this is message is ironic and borderline idiotic considering he tells us to do the exact opposite of what his career stands for, keeping people out.
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