Brooke John
Ms. Young
AP English Language, period 1
February 13, 2014
Kelley Analysis Florence Kelley was a U.S. social worker and fought for women and children’s rights. She helped to improve conditions for women, and was then trying to improve conditions for children. In this speech she uses imagery and repetition when speaking to the National American Woman Suffrage Association in attempts to gaining their support and votes towards ending child labor. She puts in a strong use of imagery to show how hard the children have to work in such bad environments by saying, “… several thousand little girls will be working in textile mills, all night through, in the deafening noise of the spindles and the looms spinning and weaving cotton and wool, silks and ribbons for us to buy.” Through these words, we are getting the image of thousands of young girls working in the dead of night, hearing how loud the spindles and looms must be. As she’s putting this image in our heads, she has us begin to feel sympathy for the children. By doing so, it’s beginning to get her audience to truly think about what these children have to go through for our goods. Also, she uses repetition to make us feel responsible for the children having to be working throughout the night by saying, “The children make our shoes in the shoe factories; they knit our stockings, our knitted underwear in the knitting factories. They spin and weave our cotton underwear in the cotton mills.” By repeating “our”, she’s