Eleanor Roosevelt was a great person who deserves tribute. She was kind and helped many people throughout her life. Claudia “Lady Bird” Johnson used a potent allusion, vivid heartfelt imagery, and an influential rhetorical question to make us feel proud and the want to continue the work of Eleanor Roosevelt in order to pay tribute to her. Firstly Johnson used a potent allusion to what the Rabbi of a Jewish community under the Hitler regime said, “A rabbi of the Jewish community in Berlin under the Hitler regime once said: ‘...The most urgent, the most disgraceful, the most shameful, and the most tragic problem—is silence.’ Eleanor Roosevelt taught us that sometimes silence is the greatest sin” (Johnson). This allusion makes the audience feel…show more content… It would also be effective in paying tribute to her because when Johnson attempts to make us proud of her, she's also helping spread word about the greatest problem, just as Roosevelt did. This would then introduce the problem to more people who would do something about it while spreading it further. These people solving the problem and spreading the word about it would be great at paying tribute since nothing pays tribute to a person more than many people continuing their work while also being proud of them. Secondly, Johnson uses vivid and heartfelt imagery in the form of describing the people that Roosevelt helped, “She saw an unemployed father, and so she helped him. She saw a neglected Negro child, and so she educated him. She saw dictators hurling the world into war, and so she worked unflinchingly for peace. She saw the United Nations divided by the conflict of ideology and power, and so she became the prophet of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights” (Johnson). This vivid imagery allows the audience to picture Roosevelt in these situations and elicits a sense of pride for her actions because she constantly chose to help other people after seeing them
