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HuChenyang 1194114 ENG1430 W05 Unit9
HuChenyang 1194114 ENG1430 W05 Unit9
HuChenyang 1194114 ENG1430 W05 Unit9
1194114
ENG1430 W05
Christopher Binstead
Rhetorical Analysis
Final Draft
2022-7-2
Matthew McConaughey (2022) made a speech to call for stopping gun violence
in the white house. According to McConaughey, Uvalde is the place where he grew up
and he leaned the responsibility of gun ownership. McConaughey stated that he met
many victims’ families and they told him the moving stories of each victim.
McConaughey reported that Alithia is a 10 years old girl whose dream is to go to art
school in Paris. Her father got a better job with a higher salary about a week before
the shooting in Uvalde and was going to take her to SeaWorld. Furthermore,
McConaughey stated that Maite who wanted to become a marine biologist was a nine
years boy. McConaughey described that when Maite died, he wore Green Converse
which is the only thing that can recognize him. McConaughey also reported Ellie and
Irma’s stories. Ellie was a lovely girl who had been preparing for Wednesday's bible
reading a week before she died. Irma was one of the teachers who was shot. Her
husband died after the shooting because of a heart attack that some say was brought
on by his wife's death. McConaughey expressed that the American laws need to add
more requirements for gun buyers. Every American citizen should have the duty to
own guns. This essay will show that Matthew McConaughey effectively argues that
American laws do not restrict gun purchases enough by using his experience as a gun
owner born in Uvalde, the stories of the victims and their parent’s sadness and anger,
and the logic for change to the law for gun purchases.
and star of many successful movies and TV shows. His hometown is Uvalde. He's
very convincing because he's a Hollywood superstar and he was born in Uvalde. The
speech is made on June 7th two weeks after the Uvalde shooting. The venue for the
speech is the White House. McConaughey was speaking to the whole American
nation. The purpose of the speech is to call for stopping gun violence and making a
logical change in gun laws. McConaughey hoped to have stricter laws and
requirements for gun buyers. The topic of the speech is stopping gun violence in
America. McConaughey expressed extreme anger and sadness about the shooting.
When he did the speech in front of White House correspondents, he sobbed through
the speech. His international influence can connect many people with him.
First, it will analyze how McConaughey supports his claims with reliable facts
Uvalde. Uvalde is the place where he was born. Uvalde taught him how to use BB
guns when he was a child. He graduated to a 410 shotgun. How to use the guns and
having the duty to own the guns are the two things that he learned in Uvalde.
McConaughey is a highly educated gun user, which makes his story all the more
convincing and credible. His experience also shows that Uvalde does not have
extensive supervision over gun purchases of all ages. The ease with which guns can
be purchased at Uvalde reflects the low requirements for gun buyers in the United
States as a whole and the easy access to guns for all American citizens. McConaughey
used his own experience as a responsible gun owner. But not many people share
abuse it. He used his personal experience to make the Whole American people
understand more that guns are easy to buy and that the US government needs to
through his performance. McConaughey used the stories of the victims and their
parent’s sadness and anger to bring the American people into this grief for the victims
and anger over gun violence as an emotional example. These stories mainly tell about
each child's unfulfilled dreams and what their parents miss about them. The use of
these stories can be a good way to attract public sympathy, which can make the
speech more powerful and make people disgusted with gun violence. Telling the
victim's story makes the speech more emotional. In Maite's story, it is told that after
the Uvalde shooting, people can only recognize Maite by his green Converse shoes.
This reflects the victimization of gun violence and the threat of ar-15s and other large
guns. In this way, McConaughey can call on the government to introduce policies on
the control of guns of mass destruction and call on people to stop gun violence.
McConaughey also uses the narrative of Alithia's father as an example of emotion. He
landed a well-paid, stable job a week before the Uvalde shooting. The family was
developing towards stability and happiness. But the shooting incident ruined all that.
McConaughey's use of the story can elicit grief and sympathy from the media and the
government. It fits with the theme of calling for an end to gun violence. These stories
reflect the toll gun violence has taken on Americans. McConaughey does a good job
her claims. McConaughey logically suggested the government should increase the
Because the Uvalde shooting was so bad because of the power of the AR-15. After
that, he pointed out the need to establish strict laws to make those who misuse guns
bear more serious consequences. The shift from stricter requirements for buyers of
guns like the AR-15 to stricter laws embodies the logic of McConaughey's speech. It
fits with the theme of banning gun violence. McConaughey uses good logic to make
This article has analyzed how the speech appeal to people and the US
government to stop gun violence through his experience as a gun owner born in
Uvalde, the stories of the victims and their parent’s sadness and anger, and the logic
for change in the law for gun purchases. McConaughey pulled off his speech by
making logical suggestions about the law through his experience with guns in Uvalde,
the stories of victims, and the emotions of parents. McConaughey used his own
experience of gun ownership in Uvalde to show that lax gun control in the United
States has led to gun violence. McConaughey then used the stories of the victims and
the grief and anger of the parents to make the speech more powerful. It can lead to
grief for the victims and anger over gun violence. McConaughey also does a good job
of analyzing the current situation in the United States and makes logical suggestions.
This makes the speech very relevant to the theme of stopping gun violence. All in all,
this is a speech that uses facts, emotion and logical analysis to show its determination