How Does Josh Swiller Use Ethos In The Unheard

In the book, The Unheard by Josh Swiller, he talks about the feeling about Africa through his eyes. While Josh is down there he helped the clinic and tried to fix the deaf program for the kids at the school. Josh brings up how life is unfair for people down there and for himself. As the first deaf white man there in the small village you really get the idea of what it's like for him just by him telling us. He demonstrates credibility by giving you the big and small details about being in Zambia and his time down there. How he writes makes you think that he’s just telling you a story about his experiences. Through this Swiller effectively convinces his audience that the center idea is that life is unfair.
Josh Swiller employs the rhetorical strategies of pathos and logos at the outset to effectively grab the reader’s attention. Through his use of emotion in the book effectively draws the readers into the story of life in Mununga, Zambia as a deaf person. One example Swiller use of pathos can be shown about the school board, and how they do nothing for these deaf kids,

Josh was trying to get the villagers to dig the wells, so they can keep making them but it turns out that anyone could really help because, the Witch doctor didn't want Josh to make the wells, so instead of digging wells he helps at the clinic. In the clinic Josh finds out that they really have nothing to help people out, “all of Zambia, had no blood supply, no IVs, no X-ray machines, no other diagnostic tools, and an inconsistent supply of the most basic drugs, the only thing the clinic never ran out or was aspirin and condoms”(79).the clinic has nothing to help the people the one doctor ends up just giving them water and 2 aspirin and sends them