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A Rhetorical Analysis Of Aids Mary Fisher Speech

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Aids Affects Everyone, Not just Poor

On August 19, 1992, a silent killer was bought forth during the National Republican Party convention in Houston, Texas. Mary Fisher, an AIDS activist, wrote an eloquent speech about what it’s like to be infected with the silent killer—AIDS. Fisher, one of the victims of this killer, delivered to the convention information and education about who the AIDS victims are. She uses persuasive authority supporting her position by telling the nation about the silent killer—AIDS. She announced that she was not the usual suspect attacked by this killer disease. Her rhetoric accomplishes what she expected to achieve; knowledge of what she had learned about AIDS and who could be the next unknowing victim. …show more content…

According to Fisher, “the public stigmas about people who contract AIDS are because of their choices and behaviors: a junkie doing drugs, promiscuous gay sexual relationships—Fisher does not fit the stereotype.” The speech presents her as “a mother, educated, professional, upper middle class and a Republicans.” She is reaching out and pleading with the audience to please be humans.” How could this happen to someone like her? She wants the “politicians to know the dangers of keeping silent.” Her speech titled, “A Whisper of AIDS” is self-explanatory. “Women and children are the hardest hit by this killing …show more content…

She speaks out that millions more will die if no one takes a stand. She implies that “President and Mrs. George H. W. Bush are compassionate, caring people who have supported her and her family through her ordeal showing that even the President and his family are taking the risk and a stand to help those who are infected and do not have a voice.” She intelligently used the president to garner support by showing his willingness to acknowledge that AIDS is a real crisis and that the entire Republican Party should make an effort to support this worthy cause. There were many educated people at the Republican convention on the night of August 19, 1992. They had no idea that they were going to be listening to a powerful speech about showing compassion to those who did not ask to be afflicted with AIDS. The convention was televised all over the nation; Fisher’s purpose was clear and she had to take this opportunity. Her stance was to defend those who suffered as she has, with the guilt and the stereotype of those who have AIDS. In Fisher’s speech where she states, “We have killed each other,” that statement changed the tone and elicits a guilty, emotional

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