When writing any sort of text, the way you deliver it to the audience is just as significant as the content of your writing. Authors tend to use multiple rhetorical devices that add more excitement or interest to their work. By performing this, the audience is engaged more with the text which appeals to them naturally. The novel March, written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell does an excellent job at exhibiting this over the various events that occurred throughout the text. Therefore, March persuades that an individual’s approach to their mission requires a great effort by displaying concerned expressions, the lonely narrative text and the chaotic graphics of the protests.
Initially, multiple expressions such as displeasure and concern are portrayed by the characters throughout the section which contribute to the fact that they are attempting to make their dream a reality through the trouble. An example is included on page 199 in the novel March, where a woman and a man are standing close to each other, appearing to be worried during the horrific protest on March 7th, 1965 which later became known as the Bloody Sunday. These characters have no clue as to how the protest will conclude but from their expressions, we understand that it won’t be pleasing. The characters’ expressions relate to the fact that they are willing to stand up against the police. The furious police crowd continuously gave the protestors a difficult time, which can be concluded from the
John Lewis has never let his 40+ arrest affect what he stands for. In Lewis’ book March, he tells his story of segregation in the 60’s and the events that shaped his life. From when he was a little kid, to an older adult, March displays Lewis deal with the segregation in the south, and the hard ships others endure. Although he experienced many events in his life, John Lewis used those events to build himself religiously and help others. Receiving his first bible, Jim Lawsons workshops, his decision not to go to college and Martin Luther King’s speech all helped him become who he is.
In the book trilogy, March by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin. John talks about his life growing up and making a difference. These highlights of his life would make him develop into someone more important. He received a Bible from his uncle as a gift, the trip John took up to Buffalo was a realization of how different the northern and southern states were. Segregation didn’t exist in the north. Later, John met Jim Lawson and began attended his workshops about non-violent protesting, and lastly his first arrest. These highlights during his youth would become eye-opening to Lewis that what he was putting himself through to take down segregation in the south was a risk for his life to save future generations.
The graphic novel trilogy, The March, tells a series of events that happen in John Lewis’s life for the better and for the worse. Throughout the books, he is faced with challenges that test his ability to stay true to his beliefs. When Lewis was a child, he received his first Bible from his uncle which was what sparked his heavy faith in God. During his spiritual journey, he began to listen to the teachings of MLK Jr. who impacted his life greatly. Lewis became the SNCC’s newest executive coordinating committee which opened his eyes to all the violence that was really apparent at the time.
At the time of Lyndon B. Johnson’s speech in 1965, “The American Promise”, conflict over civil rights has been brewing for over a hundred years. A large group of people planned on marching from Selma, Alabama to Montgomery, but fights broke out and it quickly escalated into violence. Given shortly after the happenings in Selma, President Johnson spoke before the Congress on the importance of passing the Voting Rights Act of 1965. As a man in a position of power, the desperation of the situation is prominent to him, yet he calmly presses the manner in order to persuade them of his view. President Johnson uses rhetorical devices, such as allusion and connotative diction, to create an ethical and emotional appeal toward his audience during that time of civil unrest.
The rhetorical style uses persuasive ideals in the use of language. For example, in the first sentence of the second paragraph, the parallel structure and
This paper analyzes and responds to Malcolm Gladwell’s The New Yorker article, “Small Change: Why the Revolution Will Not Be Tweeted,” concluding that though Gladwell provides a decent context for his argument, it is ultimately made less effective because of its comparisons and underlying assumptions. This paper shows how Gladwell’s comparison of contemporary social movements to those of a prior non-digital age works against his main argument by drawing an unfair parallel in which the two systems of comparison are far too different to draw any binary conclusions. The purpose of this paper is to consider how rhetoric, including the use of ethos and pathos, can influence how readers think about issues of social and political justice.
Everyone today grows up experiencing several turning points in their life that makes everyone specific and makes their own unique characteristics shine. But we all go through different turning points in our lives and everyone is different. In the Book, the March, by John Lewis and Andrew Aydin, the main protagonist [John Lewis] has several turning points that lead him to develop and strengthen his character throughout the novel. Though some say that John Lewis has developed additional qualities as he has grown up through the years, the reality is that several turning points in his life had made him a more passionate person to the people he stands against, and had made him improve and strengthen his original personality traits. The times in his life that changed him are: receiving the bible from his uncle, traveling to Buffalo with his uncle, and participating in non-violent workshops.
In March book 2, author and activist, John Lewis, delivered a speech on August 28, 1963. Before John Lewis delivered his speech, there was a lot of ciaos occurring backstage about revising Lewis’ speech. Mr. Randolph wasn’t pleased with the way John Lewis worded parts of his speech and demanded for him to change it. After Lewis negotiated with Mr. Randolph, Lewis was still content with the arrangement of his speech. Lewis confronts his sentiments to the people regarding racial inequality. He emphasizes on the unfair acts that are implemented among the African American working class. John Lewis states, “While we stand here, there are sharecroppers in the Delta of Mississippi who are out in the fields working for less than three dollars a day, twelve hours a day” (Lewis Aydin 166). In this statement, Lewis explains his reasoning for assembling his speech. His objective was to arouse the public on the realism of the nation’s unjust behavior towards African Americans. Lewis explains the march on Washington is occurring because blacks don’t receive the same wages as whites. Lewis declares, “We do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now” (Lewis Aydin 169). He proclaims that African Americans have been fighting for their freedom long enough and they are not willing to be patient. With his skillful use of appeals, Lewis applies powerful logos to illustrate racism, emotional pathos to connect with the audience, and ethos to appeal to the segregation and discrimination towards African Americans.
One of the two most prominent figures in literature, Henry David Thoreau and Doctor Martin Luther King Jr., have very similar but yet vastly different writing styles. Their writing styles can be shown through their most well known pieces of writing, “On the Duty of Civil Disobedience” by Henry David Thoreau and “Letter from Birmingham Jail” by Martin Luther King. A way to compare and contrast their styles is through their use of rhetorical devices in order to persuade their readers into viewing a particular opinion and central argument, in this case they both use pathos, the appeal through conveying emotion, in seperate ways in order to persuade readers into the similar idea of promoting civil disobedience.
When communicating any type of text, the way you deliver it to the audience is just as significant as the content of your writing. Authors tend to use multiple rhetorical devices that add additional excitement or interest to their work. By performing this, it helps to engage the audience so the text appeals to them sincerely. The novel March, written by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell does an excellent job at exhibiting this over the various uses of rhetoric throughout the text. Therefore, March persuades that an individual’s approach to their mission requires a great effort by displaying concerned expressions, lonely narrative texts and the chaotic graphics of the protests.
John Lewis is evaluating how important it is that the people march and fight for their rights even though people say just to wait, the African American community cannot wait and won't wait for the world just to pass by them. Lewis goes further into the explanation by stating “If we do not get meaningful legislation out of this Congress, the time will come when we will not confine our marching to Washington”. In other words Lewis is stating that if they do not get representation and equal rights in America then that will not stop them, they will not only march in Washington but in the other states and towns as well. This evidence can show how much the African American community had been passionate in their march’s and how they will not let
Many people in America feel that the media describes black protests as riots as a way to promote racism in America, and impose into people’s mind that African-Americans are criminals. Authors from different places around America expressed their opinions online about the use of the word “riot” to describe protests made by African-Americans. Through intelligent use the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos in their online articles, authors aim to persuade their audience to actively engage with their articles and convince them that their points regarding this controversy of “ protests vs riots”, are strongly better than others’.
March provided an example in the second paragraph of emotion and associating with the audience. At his school many people do not think of him as an average kid. March says that his classmates are scared him him because he owns a gun. When reading about the author's background the readers feel bad for him. The other way March incites emotion in his writing is by talking about the mass shooters and that they need drastic help.
American Author Bob Proctor once said, “It's the little things that you do that can make a big difference”. This same idea can be said in many different ways and is a cliche we hear quite often, yet it speaks the truth. In the March Trilogy by John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell we see how this concept can come to life. The series follows the life of activist and leader John Lewis and his accomplishments during the Civil Rights Movement. After reading the series, anyone can pull out major events in Lewis’s life that shaped his story, for instance, receiving the Bible, or his first arrest.
This is known as the most effective way to persuade the readers. March use the emotional appeal because it occurs as the most effective strategy for her issue to be known clearly by her reader’s. The use of emotion helps March pursue her readers to convince that it happened to be white men’s fault as to why Hillary Clinton lost the presidential campaign. March says, “Later we’d learn how white men failed Hillary Clinton, failed the country…” (March 8).