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To Kill A Mockingbird Ethos Pathos Logos

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Atticus uses pathos and italics to give the Jury the feeling of guilt, which can later on dictate the Jury's decision on whether Tom Robinson is guilty or not. During Atticus’s speech he mentions that the people of Maycomb County follow “the evil assumption, that all Negroes lie, that all Negroes are basically immoral beings, that all Negro men are not to be trusted around our women.” Throughout the paragraph, Atticus uses logos to allow the jury, as well as the people of Maycomb, to understand that they are not thinking rationally if they were to believe that Tom Robinson is guilty. Though coming to the end Atticus begins to use pathos to provoke the feeling of guilt by mentioning that the townspeople follow an “evil assumption.” When stating

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