In this speech Florence Kelly used all three of the rhetorical strategies pathos, logos, and ethos to convey her message labor law to her audience.
In order for a writer to use the rhetorical strategy of pathos they have to try to use an emotional appeal to touch base on the audience’s sensibility and value. Florence uses pathos in paragraph three by saying, “ Tonight while we sleep, several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all the night through, in the deafness noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton wool silks and ribbons for us to buy. “ (Paragraph 3 lines 18-22). She used this to guilt her audience in to feeling sorry and upset with the fact that many of little girls have to experience such …show more content…
In order for her to use logos she would have to use logic to appeal the audience. She use this in line 63-67, when she said “Until mothers in the great industrial states are enfranchise, we shall none of us be able to free our conscience from participation in this great evil.” In this sentence she showed the audience what the law was forcing people to do in and how they felt about it. Since women weren’t enfranchised they had to suffer and watch their kids suffer by the hand of the lack of child labor restrictions and wasn’t able to do much about it because they couldn’t vote. This this was appealing the audience because they could why and how that no restriction on a child’s work hour is wrong. Another example of how she use logos is that in the paragraph in paragraph 5 when she says “In Georgia there is no restriction whatever! A girls of six or seven years, just fall enough to reach the bobbins, may work eleven hours by day or by night.” It is common sense that eleven hours is a long time especially the fact that it is longer than school hours so the audience then see why that is wrong with