Purpose: To recognize that Chinese people are no longer weak and to convince their people and other nations that China will come up for power since they have won the war. This victory will improve everything with help from their foreign friends.
Audience: their enemies the Americans, their foreign friends and their people.
Context: At the First Plenary Session of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, after they have decided to come over new control and change things.
Appeals: Pathos; tells how they have been seen as weak and what the Kuomintang have done to them. Ethos; Providing information of what they plan to do and giving his credibility as to why and how.
Logos; The logic of China standing up and the convincing and reasoning for their country to do so.
Techniques: Uses effective words such a ; crushed, great unity, ruthless, oppressed, slaughtered, humiliation, victorious and heroic. Repeats their need of their "foreign friends". Antithesis. Parallel Structure. Rhetorical questions.
Effectiveness: The speech flows better and you are more convinced and conveyed by his actions, what he wants to do and why Mao is thinking this way and moving toward these ideas.
Claim: since they have won the war= they are in need of their foreign friends= China is no longer weak= time for China to STAND UP!
Warrants: Since China is now changing their ways and looking to become stronger and out of their weak shadow, it is time for China to stand up.
General Evaluation: China wants to have and hold power. Mao is a person of power and wants his country to believe that they have power and now it is time to STAND UP and realize that now it is time to put their power to action. Now that their foreign friends, Russia being its biggest and strongest one, is here and their is a great unity between their allies, China now has the strength it needs to get their power up.
