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Rhetorical Analysis Of Speech By Karen Thompson Walker

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Karen Thompson Walker created the speech to explore the effects of how fear can impact a person and their perception of fear. She explains how fear is just there, but a figment of the mind. Fear is the mind's way of storytelling itself. It is best displayed in children, they fear so much because of their minds being so active and them being 'new' to the world. Walker opens her speech with a story about some guys on a boat, but then they crash and are stranded in the ocean. She presents it in a way that evokes fear and sympathy from the listeners by putting them in a place where they can relate to the story being told. She uses vocabulary such as "what if we..." to make the audience think about what is going on. Walker uses them to relate to
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