Rhetorical Analysis Of John F Kennedy Speech

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On April 10th 1962, as the U.S. was emerging from a recession, the country's largest steel companies collectively raised steel prices by 3.5 percent. This increase in steel prices would send the U.S into economic inflation, increasing the prices of all other things in America. To combat this trickling effect, a change had to be made among these steel companies.The President at the time, John F. Kennedy (JFK) came out with a call to action speech regarding this issue the next day. In JFK’s speech following this, he effectively argues against this rise in steel prices by the major steel companies of America by asserting his patriotism through his use of pathos as he addresses the American people that this incline will affect and his predictions through his usage of foreshadowing as he explains the inevitable effects this incline will cause if no change occurs.

Patriotism is a key aspect of this speech. …show more content…
The importance of this emotion evoking device is the feeling it creates for the audience listening to it. For example, in his speech he states “when we are asking Reservists to leave their homes and families for months on end, and servicemen to risk their lives -- and four were killed in the last two days in Vietnam.” Along with, “Price and wage decisions in this country. are and ought to be freely and privately made, but, the American people have a right to expect in return for that freedom, a higher sense of business responsibility for the welfare of their country”. JFK introduces the fact that citizens of our country who are inevitably going to feel the effect of these steel prices are actively going to war for our country &

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