RA #12

The speech that I decided to analyze is probably one of my favorite that I have seen on TV. It is from the hit show The Office, when the character Dwight gives his speech to an audience of salespeople. His target audience is obviously the salesmen and saleswomen at the convention that they are attending. In his speech he definitely uses pathos in order to relate to his fellow salespeople and get them excited about the work that they do. He speaks with a lot of emotion and pounds on the pulpit and waves his arms in order to make a statement and use emotion to motivate his audience. His argument is that they must stick together and to work hard in order to be successful. He says, “that it is for together that we shall prevail.” He is giving this speech because he is the salesman of the year and so he is trying to motivate his fellow paper salespeople to work harder and to never give up. I think that his speech was very effective because he used emotion and was very motivating as he gave the speech. His speech was uniting and caused the audience to become involved and become excited about becoming better salespeople and uniting together. Also, since he was the salesman of the year, his speech also included ethos because he was the best so his audience will be very open to what he has to say in order to improve.