I really liked how the author wrote this paper. It was well organized and helped portray the writers purpose very well. Many of the techniques the author used were appeals to the emotions. He started off however trying to set up some credibility either by saying what he does or by connecting his situations to that of which he was discussing. This was a good use of Ethos. His use of Pathos however covered most of the paper. He tried to help people understand what was morally or emotionally wrong with the situation. By relating the situation to the German occupation was an appeal to the terrible emotions that are remembered with those events. It was an overexhageration but it got his point across very well. He also used very strong and demeaning words in his writing to stir emotions about what was happening. Words like destroy, colored, or eliminate made the statements have more power. Also he used quotes and dialog which also help in the same way.
I really like the writing in this paper too. It had a powerful feeling to it. The amount of ethos used in this surprised me. He really crammed a lot of it in there.
ReplyDeletei also picked up on his use of ethos in the text; the beginning of the letter was covered with it. it really helped me as a reader believe what he was saying and made me want to hear his opinion.
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