America has experienced many terroristic tragedies that take many lives. Altough we do need to except the fact that our friends are dead, we also need to regain our unity and overcome terrible events. Robert F. Kennedy helped us gather our composure at the memorial for the death of Martin Luther King, Jr. Along the same lines, Bill Clinton talks about the bombing in Oklahoma. They both sound mournful, but bright. The only difference between the speeches are the occasion, the audience, and appeals to the reader. In their speeches, “Oklahoma Bombing Memorial Address” and “A Eulogy For Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Bill Clinton and Robert F. Kennedy write to express their thoughts and feelings of how we can’t let tragedies ruin our future, but Bill Clinton strengthens his credibility by making the reader feel like they are friends while Kennedy strengthens his credibility by telling the reader that he knows the pain of death. As an illustration, Clinton helps his speech by …show more content…
Clinton says, “But for so many of you they were also neighbors and friends. You saw them at church or the PTA eetings, at the civics club, at the ballpark. You know them in ways that all the rest of America could not. And to all the members of the families here present who have suffered loss, though we share your grief, your pain is unimaginable.” Basically, Clinton is saying that for a lot of people, the ones who died were great friends and you always got to see them. We can’t harp on the memory of their death, but that happy times. Kennedy spreads the idea of loving more by using emotional appeals on the reader. Kennedy claims that we need to “replace that violence, that stain of bloodshed that has spread across our land, with an effort to understand with compassion and love.” In making this comment, Kennedy urges us to not be so angry, and look at the good sides of people and learn to love