REED,Sarah
Period 3 AP Language
March 1st, 2006
A Whisper on Aids
AIDS has taken over many millions of peoples lives and Mary Fisher is one of them. A Whisper on Aids is a very inspiring speech by Mary Fisher. She brings out her emotions and her true feelings of what she believes the American people think about AIDS. She conveys her message from her didactic and preaching tone, her creative syntax, and her realistic examples.
Fisher starts out in a very preaching tone. She shortly states "I want your attention, not your applause" (paragraph 1). She is now coming out to the world to preach about her own experience not for sympathy but to teach them what it is all about. She just hopes for them to listen to her and to know the dangers and risks of AIDS. Then, she begins a more didactic tone when really getting into the issue. She states "AIDS is the third leading killer of young adult Americans today" (paragraph 5). She is trying to teach the American......
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