Eve Ensler drones on for an excruciating nineteen minutes. I say excruciating, not because it is boring, but because the Ensler made you imagine what horrific things happen to women in Africa. She casually talks about sexual abuse, mutilation of female genitalia, and rape of girls. She makes it very clear that little girls are raped, cut, beaten, and abused. Not only this, but she described one girl’s account of her experience, that she actually ran from her father at fifteen. This girl, like very many others, was going to be sold and trafficked. Most of the girls whom are trafficked are then made into sex slaves. Their ages vary, but they are primarily young girls. Ensler uses these horrific accounts of what happen to support her thesis, social justice. How is it socially just for little girls to be treated as if they are meat? Hell, meat is treated better! She cites from primary sources that these atrocities happen and has written multiple books about it. She has donated thousands of dollars to help women in Africa. She donates to a missionary, that takes in these girls whom are running from traffickers. Many of the traffickers are their fathers trying to make ends meet. Essentially, she sums it all up with support to back her idea, saying she is trying to stop these atrocities from happening in Africa… Ensler sets a much different mood than other speakers. She introduces a subject that makes the audience think about social justice in a new horrific, gory light. She uses these things to support the idea of social justice. Many other speakers do well by describing social justice, but few do not make the audience understand fully what the thesis is. Ensler grips the audience’s attention and makes them understand. She doesn’t use civil rights to describe it, which may lose interest, but a seemingly fictional idea to back her main idea. It seems to awful to be true, so it grabs the audience’s attention versus other possible speakers.
Although, she does have a common thread like other speakers. Ensler uses several lines of support to bring one common idea up. She supports her thesis to the end and holds the audience’s attention. Her support was more ground breaking which makes her stand out versus others. And that is what makes the difference between good and great.
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