Mcmillan's Presentation

The person you really need to marry” An Analysis

In the Ted talks “The person you really need to marry,” Tracy McMillan speaks about women empowerment, and how you should carry yourself in life. In the presentation, McMillan goes over her past life experience on how she married and divorced three different times before coming to her conclusion about marriage. She explains how growing up in twenty-six foster homes with both parents absent by substance abuse, she decided that life was all about never being left. She assumed that by marrying would help her solve the void of not being loved until she had someone. In the end, she soon realized that she was never going to feel whole until she loved herself, and the person that she desired was herself. McMillan presentation was effective because she appeals to emotion through her empowering story, and humor, and sympathy.

First, McMillan shares her empowering story. She illustrates how she married her first husband at seventeen and then five years later she remarried that same type of guy which both ended in divorce. The audience cheered her on as she told her passionate life story. She acknowledges her mistakes by
For example, she states “how both of her ex-husbands were amazing men and were married to wonderful women that just was not her”, as she stated causing the audience to laugh. There were some points in her presentation that you could help but to smile and look at the brighter side. She speaks about how the effects of being from twenty-six foster home lead her to marry her third husband that cheated on her with a twenty-one-year-old nine months into the marriage. McMillan expressed such humor as you spoke on this topic from her experience. She would use her mistakes as a sense of humor to show the audience that you can smile through the good and bad. The amusement was one of the key points in why this presentation was