Sitting Bull's wording and way of speaking his mind and was very well done; especially his rhetorical devices. They really connected with the audience, listeners and readers alike. His use of pathos fit well into his speech when he talks about how mother Earth is being defiled by how the Americans "compel her to produce out of season" as well as being "made to take medicine so she may produce again"-{paragraph 2}. Sitting Bull is trying to indiredtly tell the audience that mother Earth should be preserved wisely and treated with love and care but the white people are disrespecting the land and not caring at all about it, which also brings up his use of personification in the first paragraph stating that "the earth has gladly received the embraces of the sun, and [they] shall soon see the results of their love!"…show more content… Not only that, but the white people are also taking the Natives home away from them, even though they promised to give them a fair amount of land after the Natives "made a treaty by which [they] were assured that the buffalo country should be left to [them] forever." -{paragraph 3} Sitting Bull really exaggerates the fact that the Natives were willing to be fair and make peace but the white men obviously did not care, which was a very effective use of ethos, by giving the audience his stance on how unethical the white man's actions were. In my opinion, the most useful rhetorical device Sitting Bull used was personification because it's easy for people to connect with people. Sure there's pathos to hit people emotionally, but if you personify almost anything, it will make people feel sorry for it when something unfortunate happens to it. Because Sitting Bull was talking about the earth like it was a living human being, the audience would feel bad for it when the white people mistreated
