Rwanda Ethos Pathos Logos

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To get their audience from where they are to where they want them to be (Jeremy peter), authors and speakers tried many ways of persuasion until for more than 2000 years, Aristotle, a Greek philosopher, wrote The Art of Rhetoric in which he divided the means of persuasion into ethos, pathos and logos. They are means of persuading others to believe a particular point of view (Examples of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos) and such approaches can be seen in the story of A good man in Rwanda by Mark Doyle in which he tells a story of Capt. Mbaye who stood out among the madness of war, risking his life to save others . First of all, what is ethos? Ethos or ethical appeal is persuading an audience by one’s authority via self-portrait by using a decent language, reliable resources and showing your expertise to deliver a message that is appropriate to the topic. Mark Doyle as a BBC journalist uses ethos to …show more content…

Moreover, he interviewed Marie-Christine Umuhoza, the daughter of the prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana about Mbaye as a credible source Umuhoza said that she owes her life to Mbaye as her saved her when she was 15 at the time.After the hutu army broke into Unuhoza’s house and killed her mother, the prime minister, and 2 of her brothers, she and her left brothers hid in a …show more content…

Such are anger, pity, fear and the like, with their

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