Robert Kennedy Rhetorical Analysis Essay

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Robert Kennedy’s appeal Robert Kennedy appeals to his audience by uniting the audience with a common enemy; hate. He explains that it may be easy to give into these feelings of bitterness and desire for revenge, it may be easy to move into a direction of “greater polarization- black people amongst blacks, and white amongst whites” ( 5 Kennedy) but later reminds the audience that it is up to them to keep Martin Luther King Jr.s legacy and dream alive, and in order to do so we as a country must unite and “tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.” ( 12 Kennedy). Robert Kennedy also appeals to his audience by opening up and giving a personal example of his struggle with hate, “ I can also feel in my own heart the same