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Here is my Monroe Method breakdown of the "A Time to Kill" clip.
The Action step is when the defense lawyer tells the jury thathe is going to toss he planned speach and give it to them straight. He also admits to being an inexpierenced lawer. These two comments draw in the attention of those listening because they feel like they are about to here something real, from a real person, as opposed to a well planned and executed closing argument from a professional.
The Need step follows when he outlines the problem at hand. This is that he is here to seek truth, equality, and justice.
This is followed by the satisfaction step where he explains that truth, justice and equality can only be achieved through people who seek it. They can seek it by looking past color lines and legal menuvering.
Next is the Visualization step where he uses a story to intensify the jurys emotions and empathy for the horrible crime that has been commited.
The Action step of his closing statement is where he ends with the statement, "Now image she's white." This promps them to do the right thing in spite of racial issues.
Here is my reading analysis:
George Wallace Speech
Attention: Speeks of his obligation and duty to the people siting historical figure Gen. Rober E. Lee.
Need: To end the push for total unity and centralized government
Satisfaction: segregation
Visualization: He points out the positive asspects of segregation such as being with people that are like yourself. Like minded, like religion, like race.
Action: Invites the Negro population to work with him to acchieve segregation.
King Speech
Attention: He calls the gathering at which he is giving the speech, the greatest rally for freedom in history.
Need: Life, liberty, and the persuit of happiness.
Satisfaction: Full unwaivering citizenshiip rights
Visualization: This is where he goes into the I have a dream thing where he paints a positive picture of what he is stiving for.
Action: Togetherness, non violent protest
King Eulogy
Attention: Describes why they are all present. To pay respects and to bury two girls who were the victems of a crime.
Need: To make sure that these girls did not die in vain.
Satisfation: when the country begins to acknowlege these wrong doings and set thngs right in the minds and hearts of the offenders
Visualization: The part where he explains the parts of life and how this is all part of it tand that the girls did not live long but they did live well, yada yada.
Action: Not to retaliate, push forward with life and continue the struggle for rights
Malcolm X Speech
Attention: Gets right to the point that he is not here to persuade but to tell you how it is.
Need: To clarify revelution
Satifaction: When people either stop misusing the word revolution or get to it.
Visualization: Explains past revelutions and how the current one isn't a revolution at all.
Action: Bloody Revolution
President Johnson Speech
Attention: Announces that he is speaking for the race of man and democracy. Those are some pretty large issues to represent.
Need: Equal rights for the American Negros
Satisfaction: End of descrimination not just on the books but in practice.
Visualization: That the government must fufill its promise, that it is the right thing to do in the eyes of man and god. unity will add to the greatness of this country
Action: Congress to work together to acheive racial equallity
Ted Kennedy Speech
Attention: Open with the topic of love and what it is and means>
Need: For people to recognize the problems of the world
Satisfaction: When people stand up for an ideal
Visualization: To solve the problems in the world
Action: Group effort
The Monroe Method, “A Time To Kill”
Action step: Right off the bat he knows the audience may not be listening because he is a young and inexperienced lawyer. So he gets their attention by apologizing for his lack of age and experience. While he talks about seeking what the truth may be, he is asking a bunch of rhetorical questions.
Need step: He is describing the problem; he says “he is set out to prove that a black man can receive a fair trial in the south, because we are all equal in the eyes of the law.” He knows everyone in the audience knows this is not true.
Satisfaction step: He wants the audience to seek the truth in their hearts. He tells the story of the girl who was brutally raped and tortured.
Action step: He successfully left the audience with thoughts of sorrow for this girl, just by getting them to imaging she was white, like most, didn’t even see her at all before that.
_Monroe Method
I found analyzing this week’s speech from A Time to Kill using the Monroe Method to be an interesting process. I’ve never seen this movie so for me watching this clip without knowing why this speech is happening, gave me an uninformed point of view, but after watching it again given the situation, I would say that this speech was most likely given to an opposed audience. The attention of the audience is gained at the beginning when he establishes that he was taught it is incumbent for lawyers to not just talk the truth, but to seek, find, and live it. He feels the need to ask how the truth is proven credible. He gives an example of Dr. Bass, who had been convicted of raping a 17 year old girl when he was 23, whom later turned out to wed him, bare his child, and is still with him to this day. The only reason he was convicted was because of the law, but if he is happy and still with her, is it right to say that because he was a convicted felon he still doesn’t have a credible opinion? This leads into the satisfaction to present a solution to how we should perceive the situation in the quest for truth. He asks what seeks the truth, and suggests that the heart should lead in the pursuit. He feels that all should be equal in the eyes of the law, but “human” eyes are what control the law, and until people are looked at as equal, the law will just be a reflection of the prejudices of the people who those “eyes” belong to. Suggesting the audience closes there eyes, he then begins to speak to their hearts, and illustrates a story about a little girl. The story explains how the little girl was abducted by two men, who then took her to a field and decided to rape her. After they were finished, they used her for target practice by throwing full beer cans at her, hitting her so hard that it tore her flesh down to the bone. Right before attempting to hang her they decided to urinate on her, he asks the audience to picture the noose going around her neck, right before they hung her from a tree branch. Since the trees limb was so weak, it snapped, causing them to throw her in the back of their truck to take her to a creek. They then threw her off a steep cliff where she laid broken, raped, beaten, soaked in urine and semen, and in her blood, left to die. He closes the story by asking the audience to picture the little girl as white. This is to show that regardless of color, this type of behaviour is unacceptable and the time to make decisions based off our heart instead of our mind is now, and if we can’t do that then we will never reach equality
Samantha Brick:
When I went to the website, 'A Time to Kill' was no longer available. So I chose to watch the clip from '10 Things I Hate About You'.
For the Action Step, the teacher asks anyone if they would like to read their poem (that they made up based off a Shakespeare poem) out loud. Kat (a main character) volunteers to read hers in front of the class. She has gained attention by volunteering and going to the front of the room, and the class knows what poem she's referencing to beforehand.
For the Need Step she describes all the things she hates about the guy she loves (who is in the classroom as well) and makes the class uncomfortable because they're hearing something personal. She illustrates and points out the specific things she hates (such as his hair, and his boots, and how he drives her car, etc.). The ramification is her rhyming.
The Satisfaction Step involves her making the guy want to make her feel better. When Kat starts crying, it is clear that these things about the guy are painful for her to talk about, because she loves him.
The Visualization Step allows the guy to see that Kat really doesn't hate him. She wants to, but she cares about him too much to let all those small things matter. This, in turn, makes the guy want to comfort her more.
The Action Step causes the guy to realize what Kat feels and to convince him to talk to her again. Kat ends with saying "But mostly I hate the way I don't hate you -- not even close, not even a little bit, not even at all". This challenges the guy to either put all their problems aside and fix things, or to leave her.
Well first off I have to say, Wow! Probably on of the most emotionally driven speeches we've gone over.
He paved the way for common ground by stating that he was inexperienced and that he will be speaking from the heart. This put him on the level with the audience. He stated that there is a need to find truth and that everybody in the court room is there for that purpose.
He overcame opposition by stating that to see truth you can't use your eyes or your mind because these fall ill to prejudice and hate. But that they use their hearts for the heart stays pure and unaffected by things like race and background.
He asked the audience to visualize the story and he presented it in a dramatic way. And by asking the audience to close there eyes they began to trust him and they were more apt to listen. And he gave he story.
In my opinion satisfaction didn't come until the call to action, he ended the story, emotion was rampant, attention at its highest. He now spoke from the heart to the heart. Then came the final blow, "now picture that this child is white." I can't believe that there is a single person in the audience that was not affected by that closing. Everybody heard the words, everybody fell victim to the vision, and everybody was rocked by the close. He didn't tell people to picture the little girl black, but I believe mostly due to the nature of the events at that time people did. Even if they thought they were being fair and just, that instant they saw the light. He proved to them without a shadow of a doubt that they were using there minds and eyes to judge and from then on I'm sure they used their hearts.
Reginald V. Waters II
Attention Step:
F & M: Mathew puts a disclaimer on his speech by his informal introduction. He catches not just the jury off guard but the stands as well. This technique makes his following speech many times more effective.
Need Step:
F & M: The young lawyer does this by reminding people what justice and law are and who defines them. He reminds them that human eyes judge the people but we are bound “under God” to use our hearts to determine right from wrong.
Satisfaction Step:
F & M: Sadly the young lawyer knows his perspective is greatly outnumbered. And foregoes the conventional legal vernacular and tactics to basically tell the jury “imagine if the girl was white” to get them to “relate” to the problem.
Visualization Step:
F & M: This is the meat and potatoes of the lawyers’ argument. He has the jury close their eyes so they have nowhere else to turn but inside themselves. Then he tells them the story using vivid imagery & details except the description of the race of the girl or the men, (he saves that for last) begging the question, what difference does it make what color either party was? One partly was obviously victimized but, to satisfy their conscience he throws the “she’s white” part in their for them to judge themselves and there imperfections.
Action Step:
F & M: His speech is without a doubt effective because of the verdict given. He’s leaves the audience with feelings of sympathy for the defendant. The case was about a man who killed other men but the jury saw a “black” man who killed “white” men. What the lawyer did was make the jury sympathize with why he killed those men and question whether or not they would have done the same thing.
WALLACE
Attention Step:
Promises of civil “duties” and maintained superiority.
Need Step:
Ending the need for a “Father and God” figure of central government.
Satisfaction Step:
He begins appealing to the character of that era, the (ethos) negative energy of segregationists.
Visualization Step:
He points out the ease of being with likeminded people but actually preys on their fears of the unkwown. (perhaps forgetting he said “where there’s fear there is no God”).
Action Step:
He tries to motivate black workers to reassurance of further peace from their “separate” work stations. The message is fake and convoluted to confuse people its nothing more than saying “work with us! We like you. But not really….)
KING
Attention Step:
Within his vision he called the rally because he saw the unity of back people at the time, they just needed to see it themselves, once observed the speech gave him even more credibility.
Need Step:
All things owed to any one person. Freedom and independence.
Satisfaction Step:
Full rights and full citizenships no more second class servant business.
Visualization Step:
He conveys the message through his speech and tells everyone attending why they are there and what they must achieve.
Action Step:
He encouraged creative protest which is non-violent and apparently very effective.
X
Attention Step:
Uses pathos to prey on the anger of the people. Uses reality to embolden the already “fed up”
Need Step:
People need to satisfy the anger and change reality by means of revolution. To cast aside King’s notion of peace through non-violence.
Satisfaction Step:
understand and define what revolution is so change can begin and stop false starts.
Visualization Step:
False ideas of revolution aren’t needed but real ones are ie. “bloody revolutions or war more simply put.
Action Step:
Real physical war.
Monroe method-A Time to Kill
Attention step: The lawyer tells the jury and the audience thathe is there to tell it like it is basically. he tells the audience to close their eyes and imagine the story he is going to tell.
Need Step: he thoroughly explains whats going on and the actions and crimes that take place to this young African American girl
Satisfaction Step:he says that color and race shouldn't be an issue everyone should be equal
Visualization step: He tells the story of the little girl and how she is being raped and beaten.I'm sure this makes the heart's of the audience tremble.
Action step: the action that is taken when he is done with his very detailed story is that he wants the audience to imagine if that little black girl was a white girl. in the clip you could immediately see the audience expression
Starr
Action Step: defense tells jury they are going to toss the speech and give it to them straight. This is a logos appeal because the jury is lead to believe they are not watching a production but rather the truth is being told.
Need Step: He lays out the story for the jury and leads them down a path to a plan of action.
Satisfaction Step: He explains how looking past color lines is the only true way to achieve justice.
Visualization: Uses a story to paint a picture for the jury utilizing pathos and ethos to evoke emotion and persuade the jury.
Action Step: Utilizes logos to ask the jury to do "the right thing" In this statement he is counting on the fact that he has laid out his case and persuaded the jury in his favor.
George Wallace
Attention step:talks about civic "duty" as a necessity not an option.
Need: Central Gov't is no longer in need of "father and God"
Satisfaction: Segregation
Visualization: Puts the audience on the same page referring to their like mindedness.
Action: Invites the Negroes to embrace segregation for the good of everyone.
King
Attention Step: Called everyone together for what he said was the greatest speech in history.
Need:basic rights life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Satisfaction: Full rights for all
Visualization: "I have a dream that one day..."
Action: Non- violent protest for rights
King Eulogy
Attention Step: Reminds audience they are there to bury two little girls.
Need: To create awareness so these girls did not die in vain.
Satisfaction: When justice is served by the perpetrator.
Visualization: Tells of the circle of life and shares that the two little girls died young but lived a good life.
Action: Do not dwell but work to create a better and more just tomorrow.
Malcolm X
Attention Step: Tells it like it is with no sugar coating.
Need: To define revolution
Satisfaction: Everyone needs to stop talking and start doing to create a revolution.
Visualization: Shares of past revolutions and explains it takes much more than what is currently happening to create a revolution.
Action: Come together and start a real revolution.
President Johnson
Attention Step:Speaking man in the race for democracy.
Need: Equal rights for all
Satisfaction: No more discrimination.
Visualization: Unity will add to the greatness of this country.
Action Step: Congress will take necessary action to insure racial equality.
Kennedy
Attention Step: He talks of love which is something we as humans have all experienced regardless of race.
Need: We need to take note of what is going on around us.
Satisfaction: We all need to stand up for what we know is right.
Visualization: How we can solve the problems in our world.
Action: It will take all of us coming together to make a change.
A Time to Kill
Action:The Defense lawyer approaches the floor for his closing arguement. He explains that he is not going to say on what he had planned to and admits that he is a young, inexperienced lawyer. This lets the people there that what he was going to say was pure from heart.
Need:This is where the defense lawyer explained that he is here to seek for truth, equality, and justice and the anecdote of the man who he mentioned about the raped charges then later married and had children with the victim.
Satisfaction:In this step he mentions that race and the color of your skin should not be an issue and that everyone should be equal.
Visualization:In this step he tells the people of the jury to close their eyes and visualize the story he is going to tell them. He uses the story to paint a picture of the victim and the horrible event that she had to endure. He also emphasized that the people in the court he they can see/picture that little girl.
Action:To end his closing argument. He tells the jury. "Now imagine she's white. This last action step seems to refer back to the original issue to that race should not matter and it took a powerful speech like that to convince the people in the court.
Orlando C.
Monroe Method
A Time To Kill
-attention step:
He gaind attention by telling a little about himself. he was a young lawer and implied he had something writen, but instead he was going to appologize.
-need step:
He wanted people to see what he saw. to beleive in what he believed.
-satisfaction step:
He said the truth is within the people. if they cant find equality within themselfs then how do they expect equality from the eyes of the law.
-visualization step;
he told everybody to close their eyes and to try and visualize the story about the litte girl being abused.
-action step:
He wanted the audience to feel sympathy and force them to take sides with his words.
humberto martinez
A time to kill speech,
The introduction of his experience opens up the topic of how he got to be were he is in life. He makes the audience put themselves in a situation were they could make a decision not based on the mind but from the heart. This makes it more of a personal approach for one to listen and try to relate to the topic. That one should not judge by the exterior of an individual but by there character, for that is why he was defending this person in trial. To set a perfect example of what he is trying to explain to the audience he makes them close there eyes as he tells a story. A story of a brutal rape done to a child. Intense and descriptive words were told to unfold the dramatic attack done to such a child. One the audience was told to picture the child word “white” was told to tell her ethnicity. With that word brought up, it unfolded the point he was carrying of how people judge others by there appearance/ethnicity rather then there character.
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