President Bush 9/11 Speech Analysis

When Bush delivered his speech for the 9/11 attack, some people would not have noticed that he was using Rhetorical devices while he was writing the speech and when he delivered it to the nation in the time of crisis. The five used in his speech were Sender(Ethos), Message, Emotional Strategies(Pathos), Logical Strategies (Logos), and Language (Ethos,Pathos,Logos) while delivering and having the people of America receive it in the way they needed it to be delivered to them to know that everything was going to be alright. So in this paper, we are going to analyze the speech he gave on 9/11.
SENDER-RECEIVER RELATIONSHIP=ETHOS
President Bush was the sender while the American people and terrorists are the receivers. When Bush gave his speech on that downcast of a day, he delivered it as if it was the only thing to give life back to those who were so depressed because of what had happened. Every time he said our, it made it feel like we were all the same, OUR country, OUR freedom, OUR way of life. He wanted us to feel like he wasn’t our leader, but a fellow American who saw the destruction of the Twin Towers. He watched as American lives were destroyed and were killed by a death that never should have come to be. An example of his is in the first sentence of the
We are warriors, we come from fighters that have fought off things that no other country has ever faced, when we were bombed at Pearl Harbor we came fighting back even though we were weaker than ever, we fought the Axis powers to win a three year war that was going on that we wanted no part of, but when they hurt us we fought back! WE fought for our independence from the Britain even though we