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A murder case. Two victims. One axe. 42 chops. One murderer. Lizzie Andrew Borden. The book The Borden Murders and the Trial of the Century is an immersive crime case story about the murder of Andrew Borden and Sarah Borden, Lizzie's parents. In this book, Sarah Miller took us on a ride through the cold case of Lizzie Borden. The book is split into 3 sections to further help us differentiate the story. Starting with the first section introduced the characters and the climax. We witness each murder being discovered in detail, First her stepmother, then her father. We see the clues being pieced together one by one, the suspect list growing and shrinking and containing different names in each chapter, but one was constant Lizzie Borden. The next …show more content…

She constantly used examples of pathos (emotion) and logos(logic) to cause the reader to feel an emotional connection to the main character and want her to win her case and be proven innocent, but then evidence against her shows up and makes our heads spin with inciting prolepsis. Some quotes seem to be pure logic such as, “Whether she was guilty or innocent, Lizzie Borden’s inquest testimony was nothing short of catastrophic. Her answers appear so evasive, contradictory, and obstinate, it’s hard to imagine anyone attempting to prove his or her evidence more ineffectively.”, (pg124), which makes us think that she was guilty of the crime by telling us that she did terribly in her trial. Despite this, however, this passage also makes us feel bad for Lizzie because throughout the story we had been conditioned, in a way, to be on Lizzie's side. The quote has an underlying idea that nobody looked deep enough into it and even if she was just nervous or in shock, she wouldn't get any redemption for her actions. This plays with our emotions and makes the reader want to stand up for Lizzie and believe her. Sarah's play on her uses of logos and pathos makes the book feel like we are solving the crime, which just makes her writing 100x

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