During the civil rights movement, civil rights leader; Cesar Chavez wrote and published an article to a magazine of a religious organization. Chavez claims that “nonviolence is more powerful than violence” itself. His essay contains many rhetorical appeals and strategies that contribute to him convincing his readers about nonviolence resistance - meaning that they should stop violence and resolve a conflict in peace. Adding on to that line, he makes them feel sympathetic. Chavez appeals to the audience's pathos in his article when he said, “If we resort violence the one of two things will happen: either the violence will be escalated and there will be many injuries and perhaps deaths on both sides, or there will be total demoralization of the workers.” Chavez is trying to bring awareness to the public; so people can open their eyes and see what's going on in life , which is very pernicious violence. But people seem to slipshod when it come to this issue. The word “demoralization” has great meaning to this quote,because he is referring to violence as inhumane and corrupt appealing to the audience's pathos. Chavez also applies a metaphor in …show more content…
He claims that,”...it is too big a price to pay for not getting anything” referring to the people who died in war appealing to the audience's pathos making them feel pity for those who did not have much. He begins to bring up historical events and then talks about the preeminent leader Gandhi. Gandhi was a leader who believed in nonviolence just as Chavez did himself. The erudite leader in his article juxtaposes in the line , “...the rich may have money, but the poor have time.” Contrasting both the rich and poor reminding his audience about their different resources that are present in their life, which is time. Making the poor seem more advantaged. Appealing to the audience’s