Rhetorical Analysis Of Why Don T We Complain

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In William F. Buckley Jr. essay Why Don't We complain? Buckley uses an asyndeton to catch the audience's attention and make them see and understand what he is trying to convey. His audience are Americans who don’t complain or stand up for their own ideas and feelings. He wants them to start to complain and do things like he does when he gets the courage to complain. With the use of and asyndeton he throws out the conjunctions because if he kept them he wouldn’t get the audiences attention like he wants. Conjunctions would slow his fiery passion in the sentence down and it wouldn’t have the same effect if it went faster. With out them the sentence has more of an impact on the reader because its presented the message in a nutshell and allows