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Rhetorical Analysis on Popular Media

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Many movies, books and even speeches today are using Aristotle’s concept on how to catch a reader’s attention. People use pathos, logos and ethos to capture the reader’s attention. People use pathos, logos and ethos all the time but most of the time they do not use it correctly. In movies such as Remember the Titans, Legally Blonde and Clueless, all use either pathos, logos or ethos in their movies. An affective rhetoric is a way of writing that writers use to persuade or catch a person’s attention. The Greek philosopher Aristotle introduced to the world in ancient times the use of pathos, logos, and ethos. Each is used in a certain way and has a certain meaning to it. Pathos is mainly associated with emotional appeal and how the writer is making their reader feel. Logos is associated with the writer’s logical appeal and it is also showing more facts. Ethos is mainly associated with the character of the speaker or writer and is often also called “ethical appeal” or appeal from credibility (Aristotle. The art of rhetoric, 4). In the award-winning movie, Remember the Titans, a high school football coach, Herman Boone, portrayed by Denzel Washington, takes his players to a very famous battle field known for the Battle of Gettysburg. There, he gives them a speech that will help them come together as a team and as men. The coach and his football players go out for a run early one morning. He stops all of a sudden in a field that is very famous for the battle of Gettysburg. As the players are catching their breath, Coach Boone takes them back to that time and explains to them how the soldiers had to work together in order to win that battle. They had accepted each other for who they are and learned to treat each other with respect. Even though they were a different skin tone and from different religions, they had to come together. Even though they were different from the outside, deep inside they had brother blood (Remember

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