Rhetorical Strategies Kelley Used to Convey Her Message About Child Labor

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Florence Kelley uses the three rhetorical strategies: ethos, logs, and pathos to convey her message to her audience. The use of ethos helps to establish the writer’s credibility and expertise on the topic. Writers use pathos to connect to their audience emotionally and appeal to them. Logos involve statement of facts and data to show that the piece is based on facts. As an advocate for child labor laws and better working conditions for the working women, Kelley needed to use these tools to show that her information was credible and that she knew what she was doing, connect the audience to the suffering of the women and children, and to show the magnitude of the suffering.
Florence uses ethos by quoting several legislations that have restrictions on the ages of young people not allowed to work in the cotton mills at night and longer than eight hours. She notes Alabama as a perfect example of what other states should emulate. She compares Alabama’s stand to that of North and South Carolina and Georgia states, where there are no restrictions. She notes that while Alabama bars children from working at night to eight hours, New Jersey allows them to work all night. This extensive reference to states and their legislation governing children work shows that she has done sufficient research about her assertions and that they are credible. This reference ma...