Martin Luther King Jr was a social activist, who led the Civil Rights Movement in the United States from the mid-1950s until his death by assassination in 1968. On the tenth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Cesar Chavez, a labor union organizer, writes an article all about nonviolent resistance that includes teachings from Dr. King. Chavez employs various uses of personification and repetition to exhort the workers to use nonviolence in their efforts for equality. One way he uses personification is when he says “Principles with which our struggle has grown and matured.” By him saying this he means that as a person gets older their worries go away and become less of a problem to them. He says things in a way …show more content…
Chavez is willing to do something about violence and in time he will. Not very many people are willing to stand up and make a change about things, but Cesar is always trying to encourage people to make a change and do what’s right in the world, just like Dr. King did. Not only does he use personification in his writing but he also uses some form of repetition, “Nonviolence supports you if you have a just and moral cause. Nonviolence provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive.” Basically the idea of this is that using non violence will always back somebody up as long as they have a reasonable reason for using it. Nonviolence is the best way to go about things and no matter what happens nobody will ever get hurt. Cesar Chavez really supports it and so does Martin Luther King. Cesar Chavez is a man full of wise words. He uses all kinds of rhetorical strategies to get his point across. Nonviolence is something that a lot of famous public speakers are trying to get across but it hasn't worked. As Chavez said in line 74 “Violence does not work in the long run and it is temporarily successful.” He explains that violence will get you nowhere in life and all though it may work at the time it won’t always help