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Summary Of Nonviolent Resistance By Cesar Chavez

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Throughout history people fought for civil rights, but only those who fought with nonviolence truly succeeded. In an article written by a labor union organizer and civil rights leader, Cesar Chavez, he effectively uses a hypophora and allusions to persuade the audience to believe that nonviolent resistance is the only way to achieve meaningful and significant change. The hypophora present in “who gets killed in the case of violent revolution? The poor, the workers” effectively claims that violent revolutions are harmful and counterproductive. Chavez uses this hypophora in an attempt to elicit the common sense idea that the poor and the workers are the ones who are killed in the case of violent revolutions. Chavez wants to persuade the audience to believe that nonviolent …show more content…

The allusion to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. present in, “Dr. King’s entire life was an example of power that nonviolence brings to bear in the real world” alludes Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s nonviolent resistance against segregation. Chavez uses this allusion in an attempt to provide Dr. King’s nonviolent resistance against segregation as a precedent event to show what was done in the past can apply to now. Chavez wants to persuade the audience to believe that nonviolent resistance is the only way to achieve meaningful and significant change. The allusion effectively proves that nonviolence is the only way to achieve meaningful and significant change because Dr. King used nonviolent resistance and preached nonviolence in order to stop segregation and he was successful because the same segregation amongst African-Americans and Caucasians that occurred in the 1900s no longer exist and many people admire him. Since Dr, King was successful with nonviolent resistance, people today can also use the same nonviolent tactics to achieve their

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