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Analysis Of The Children's Era By Margaret Sanger

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The Children’s Era, was a speech delivered by a woman named Margaret sanger on the 30th of March, 1925. The address took place at a public meeting in the Scottish Rite Hall in New York, as part of the Sixth International Neo-Malthusian and Birth Control conference. Sanger was among the most notable of early twentieth century feminists, and passionately advocated her belief in population control and birth prevention among the ‘unfit’. She campaigned avidly for a birth control movement, which aimed to legalize contraceptive use worldwide. CONVENTIONS The speech consists of formal language conventions, illustrated in the introductory lines, where Sanger addresses her audience; “Mr. Chairman, Ladies and Gentleman: My subject is ‘The Children’s …show more content…

The speech was delivered in 1925, a period of time where much of the population worked in the farming industry. For this reason, Sanger includes several analogies early within the speech that are relatable to her audience. The first analogy used is about gardening, “Before you can cultivate a garden, you must know something about gardening. You have got to give your seeds a proper soil in which to grow” Sanger is illustrating the importance of understanding what pregnancy truly entails before allowing yourself to fall pregnant, as well as providing the correct conditions for which the baby may grow and thrive. By using the gardening analogy, Sanger is establishing commonality with her audience in an attempt to have them consider the point she is making. Sanger proceeds to incorporate another analogy into her speech. She refers to humanity as “a sort of silly reception committee at the grand central station of life” further establishing common ground and familiarity amongst her audience, who would have been familiar with Grand Central Station. After using this analogy to further clasp the attention of her audience, she uses alliteration and pathos when describing the children as ‘nameless refugees’ arriving at the station in trainloads; “many unwelcome, unwanted, unprepared for, unknown”. By using alliteration, Sanger is emphasising the negative conditions into which these children are born, thus creating sympathy amongst the

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