Visual & Rhetorical Analysis

My picture is concerning child sexual abuse and how the silence of it needs to be stopped. It also gives statistics about the number of girls and boys being abused. It evokes its message in the picture and text with ethos, logos, and pathos. Ethos dealing with credibility, logos having to do with the logic of the argument, and pathos deals with the emotion part of it.

The text in the picture is credible because it came from a survey from Tulir Center for Prevention and Healing of Child Sexual Abuse. Tulir meaning the first tender leaves of a plant; leaves symbolizing children and the belief in regeneration of the human spirit. Tulir (CPHCSA) is a registered, nongovernmental, non-profit organization committed to working against child sexual abuse in India. The picture is added to the text to get the point across and it is from http://prolife.deviantart.com. The website is a place to get images/art about various things and issues.

The image attempts to portray a sad emotion and straight forwardness about the silence of sexual child abuse. The picture doing that by the way the text is written especially key words and the way the image is captured. The message is clearly being sent to the audience.

The text contains information about sexual child abuse such as the percentage of boys and girls it occurs to. It emphasizes “Shatter the Silence” in bigger font because that is the main message being sent. The black background and white text make the message easier to read. The image is grey giving off a gloomy feel. The picture of the young man and children’s hands covering his eyes and mouth also sending the message across that there should be no silence in sexual child abuse. The way it is set up with the picture on the top left corner, the main message on the top right corner, and the rest of the text below is easy to understand.

The intended audience for this picture is anyone and everyone. It is issued in public interest to educate and inform individuals a little more about child sexual abuse.

Including how often this abuse occurs and the definition of it. In the hopes of maybe helping someone gain the confidence to speak up and stop an abuser from harming anyone else again.