Rhetoric+Analysis+4

__** LETTER FROM CHAIRMAN KRUSHCHEV TO PRESIDENT KENNEDY**__

**Tone:** Aggressive and Matter of Fact **Target Audience:** President Kennedy and his cabinet **Ethos (E):** 1). Khrushchev relates his situation with Kennedy, but putting Kennedy in his shoes as a Cuban, so that Kennedy could better understand how Cuba is seeing this situation so that it will justify how they are responding to he situation. By doing this Khrushchev relates to his intended audience, in this case President Kennedy. 2). Khrushchev puts Kennedy and the US in the shoes of Cubans again to explain that if the US was approached with the conditions they were given the US would have rejected them also. This is an attempt by Khrushchev to put himself and Kennedy on a common ground, to make it easier understandable to the US why Cuba is reacting the way they are. 1). “You have flung a challenge at us” openly condemns the present situation. 2). Khrushchev is unhappy the way America has put the present ultimatum so that if Cuba does not meet the needs of the ultimatum then the US will be forced to use force. Cuba condemns this situation and the way the US is creating it. 3). Cuba is condemning the US in legislating in questions of international law because the US was violating the accepted norms of those laws. The actions of the law making bodies in the US are being condemned by Cubans. 4). Condemning the fact that no law created can allow the US to reign over international affairs. So why is the US leaning towards laws to solve this problem, creation of laws are being condemned by Cuba. 5). Condemns the proclamation of the “quarantine” explaining that it is not the power of Cuba to tell other countries what they can and cannot do when importing or exporting goods to and from Cuba. 6). Goes on to condemn the “quarantine” saying Cuba will stand strong in our belief that the US has no authority to proclaim the “quarantine” and that Cuba will continue to observe the accepted norms of navigation in international waters, like always. 1). Khrushchev is angered at the US for trying to convince Cuba to agree with him. Khrushchev then argues that if we submit to you we are not working in a logical, reasonable way, just purely “submitting to arbitrariness”. 2). Khrushchev explains that the decision that the US made will not be recognized by Cuba as a just law, for the decision they made was within no authority of the US. Explaing why Cuba is choosing to not do an action in the near future. 1). Tapping into the American fear of grave suffering and the US’s vulnerability of now not having the isolation they once had from modern types of armament. This is meant to threaten or tap into the fears of the audience. 1). Explaining in fact that Cuba is prepared for what they are to do. It has been documented and is truth, by using this detailed support the research and argument of Cuba seems more realistic and convincing.
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