Within the article by Cesar Chavez, the author argues that nonviolence is a better solution to violence. Throughout the argument, Chavez utilizes different rhetorical strategies to convince his audience that nonviolence is more effective than violence. The main rhetorical strategies that are used by Chavez to develop the argument are pathos, parallelism, and diction. In the text, pathos is used to create an emotional bond with the argument and the audience. The purpose of the emotional bond is to convince the audience is the better solution than violence. As Chavez utilizes pathos in the statement, “Our conviction is that human life is a very special possession given by God to man and that no one has the right to take it for any cause(Chavez).” This means that violent protests are a cause of death amongst those who are fighting, and death is used as pathos to connect the feeling of emotional loss to the audience. Through the use of the feeling of death, Chavez employs to convince the audience emotionally that violence is not a form a protest. …show more content…
With parallelism, Chavez is able to convince the audience of positive outcomes. For example, “”Nonviolence supports you if you have a just and moral cause. Nonviolence provides the opportunity to stay on the offensive, and that is of crucial importance to win any contest(Chavez).” In the quote, Chavez indicates that nonviolence proves that a cause is morally just and allows success for that activism. Parallelism is used to convince the audience with the parallel structure, which emphasizing the efficiency of nonviolence by aligning the reasons why pacification is important. Overall, parallelism convinces the audience the positive influence of nonviolence that is exemplified through parallel