What Is The Appeal Of Pathos In The American Sniper

The book American Sniper written by Chris Kyle is a powerful and inspirational autobiography about the daily life of an American sniper. The book shows the life of Chris Kyle and his impact he made for his country. Many detailed accounts of missions and events Chris went through are expressed in his eyes and gives the reader an eye opening view of how hard and emotional war can be. Through the the story Chris expresses himself, shows the struggles that war can cause, and what he as learned throughout this years as a Navy Seal.

While ethos plays a large role in the appeal of the video, pathos plays a role equally as large. The pathological appeal in the music video is present from start to finish. The video opens with a background soundtrack of an upbeat rap tune. The tune is catchy and grabs the viewer’s attention immediately. Will Smith compliments the catchy beat by rapping an energetic rap. The rap itself demands for viewers’ attention because it appeals to their taste in music.

“The American Sniper” by Chris Kyle is an account of the deadliest American sniper ever, called “the devil” by the enemies he hunted and “the legend” by his Navy SEAL brothers. From 1999 to 2009, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris Kyle recorded the most career sniper kills in United States military history. The Pentagon has officially confirmed more than 150 of Kyle's kills (the previous American record was 109). Iraqi insurgents feared Kyle so much they named him al-Shaitan (“the devil”) and placed a bounty on his head. Kyle earned legendary status among his fellow SEALs, Marines, and U.S. Army soldiers, whom he protected with deadly accuracy from rooftops and stealth positions. Kyle presents the gripping and unforgettable accounts of

The opening scene of the movie American Sniper, “which tells the story of Chris Kyle, a Navy SEAL who shot his way to 160 confirmed kills in Iraq,” (Buckley) starts out when Chris Kyle was just a child and him and his father are out in the forest shooting deer and him beating up a bully who was picking on his little brother at school. Later on into Kyle 's young adulthood he made a decision to quit being a cowboy rodeo star and instead enlist with the Navy SEALS in 1998. During this time Kyle meets his future wife. Then, once after the trauma of 9/11, the war in Iraq puts Kyle to work as a sharpshooter, and the film shows his skills as frightening and strange. From this point, the arc of the film essentially follows Kyle across his missions as a sniper. An important element of the plot is his face-off with an enemy sniper Mustafa, A Syrian sniper who was a former Olympian rifleman, who Kyle does manage to take out near the end of the film. Kyle was shot and killed later on by a veteran who he was actually trying to help. Even though every Iraq citizen isn 't a terrorist, American Sniper should be known for its stereotypes against race because the invisible norm of the white dominant culture and the display of the male body, white males in particular. Also to add to that the movie is showing the masculine spectacle and its collapse by portraying Iraq and how all they want to do is kill Americans.

Though adventures in nature, and life, include fear and loneliness, having confidence is the true key to survival. During Wild, and A Walk in the Woods, Cheryl Strayed and Bill Bryson recall the experience of their journey of self discovery and realization in the wilderness by using significant contrast and, powerful pathos.

Over the summer I read American Sniper I felt this book was a perfect fit for me I'm very pro military. I thought it would be a very interesting read since he was the most lethal sniper the US military has ever seen.

The documentary, “Waiting for Superman”, was a very compelling display of the lack of success that has now taken over the once great education system of America. The film uses many ways to persuade the audience to believe and support their view points. I noticed that the majority of the film used appeals to pathos, the use of emotional appeals to persuade. This production is does a great job at using these. There are multiple times when this technique is used, each trying to persuade us the audience.

The most powerful use of pathos presents itself in the last few seconds of the commercial. With the British troops fleeing, a narrator says the single line of the ad, “Here’s a couple of things America got right, cars and freedom”(Dodge Challenger Freedom Commercial). The short sentence stirs pride by stating that both cars and freedom are two things that America “got right” and inferring that the Dodge Challenger is a car that the designers “got right” (Dodge Challenger Freedom Commercial).

Pathos is defined as “the emotional state of the audience, as produced by the speaker” (Smith 39). To affect the emotional state of the audience a video of California state Senator Leon was used. In this particular video Senator Leon makes presents an ar-15 rifle and proceeds to make outlandish claims on how dangerous it is. Equipped with the knowledge learned earlier in the presentation, coupled with help from the video, viewers can understand how mindless Senator Leon and therefore anti-gun lobbyists look. This video creates multiple emotions. It provokes a feeling of disgust to those educated in firearms and an encourages those uneducated to do so in the name of avoiding

Pathos, a very influential tool used by writers to control the emotional response of their audience. It is usually used to arouse an audience, while one is trying to capture the attention of the focused crowd and taking control of their reaction and transform it into some sort of persuasion or motivation. The amount of impact from the emotional response heavily depends on the way writer uses to connect and to relate to every individual on a personal level.

We all grew up with tales of dragons and beasts, banished by knights and kings. Stories of righteousness against hellfire in a most innocent way. As we grow older we come to believe that along with our days of youth, we leave behind Disney tales of “good vs. evil”, and the proper notion of an uncomplicated “right or wrong” narrative becomes nothing more than an imprint of a faded memory of what defined the world. In a perfect world, that perspective would ring as gospel amongst the people of the world, and maybe then, and only then, would the world be “perfect”. Though many long for this sort of simplicity in the universe, this is simply not how the world is. Through our storytelling, and our own psychological necessity for an affixed dichotomy

The trailer depicts the film as a must-see for all viewers by using the rhetorical appeals of ethos and pathos while also facing the constraints made by the die-hard fans. For those unfamiliar, ethos is the use of credibility in an argument to strengthen it. In the case of It’s trailer, ethos derives primarily from the use of credible cast and crew members and the use of Stephen King references. Pathos, meanwhile, is the use of emotional appeals in an argument to strengthen it. In the It trailer, pathos involves mainly visual and audio cues meant to invoke emotion in it’s audience.

In the YouTube video “Chevy Runs Deep, the central message is to sell me a Chevy brand truck. I am resistant to this video’s message because I do not care about brands of vehicles. I am more likely purchase a vehicle based on performance and price. This video was written for a sympathetic audience because it is speaking to truck and Chevy owners. The man in the video already owns a Chevy. The video shows generations of Chevy owners. The appeal used in this video is pathos because the video is conveying emotion over the man’s memories of the Chevy truck and his family time spent with the truck. I did not find this video persuasive. The pathos appeal did not persuade me, and the video annoyed me a little. I would change the appeals from pathos

Pathos is the main rhetorical appeal in McQueen’s trailer. He crafts each scene to create an emotion. Happiness and freedom are prominent in the beginning of the trailer. McQueen displays specific

Movie trailers are arguably the most important marketing tool for films before they are released. Viewers create a first impression of the film according to its trailer, and trailers tend to persuade moviegoers to either watch the film or not watch the film. It is also a ground for the film to advertise the actors and directors that worked on the project. A-list actors and directors have loyal followings, and these fans will surely enjoy seeing their stars on screen. Emotion also plays a significant role in persuasion during the viewing of a trailer. Suspense, action, horror, and comedy all fuel different emotions that create favorability or dislike amongst viewers. While there are many reasons to watch a certain film, I will examine the rhetorical forces behind our innate connection to certain types of movies, in addition to providing personal reasons behind my choice of The Revenant. Through examination of my personal opinions, I will use The Revenant as a tool to discuss the rhetorical arguments provided by Alejandro Innaritu, and further analyze the role of movie trailers in persuasion.