A Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By John F. Kennedy

Kennedy’s audience, his fellow citizens, dignitaries and citizens from foreign countries, were all awaiting the plans that the new president had. The people who voted for him and those who didn't wanted to see if this new and young president was going to be fit for the job. Kennedy‘s point of view from the driver's seat, he wanted to abolish all forms of human poverty. He recognized that this was an era of renewal and also change, and he was going to fight to remind people that the “rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God.” Although early in his presidency, Congress opposed many of the ideas that Kennedy had in mind, but that didn't stop him from fighting for what he believed. Kennedy began his speech by recognizing that his audience was not one group of people listening, it was people from all over the world that had a large part of his plans for the future. He reminded them that this was not a victory for one party or another, but the celebration of a new
He wanted his people to, “unite to heed in all corners of the earth the command of Isaiah,” his allusions throughout his speech show that he is not only trusting the people, but he is also trusting his beliefs. Kennedy uses personification when he states, “with history the final judge of our deeds,.“ He is explaining that their children and grandchildren of this country will live in the world they make for them, so they want it to be good. Finally in exclamatory phrases he asks his fellow Americans, “ask not what your country can do for you-ask what you can do for your country,” and to his fellow citizens of the world, “ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.” Kennedy had a plan, and he was talking to whoever would listen, because eventually he would need their help to success in making better of the