Read this excerpt from ray bradbury’s commencement speech. and then you gather around you the people who do believe in you—your parents and a few friends, if you're lucky. we don't have many friends in this world; but the few that do believe in you—and then you move on into the future. i try to do that. what element of persuasion does bradbury use in this excerpt? a connection with the audience researched facts that prove a point a statement of purpose examples to support an argument