Narrative Of The Captivity And Restoration Of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson

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A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson’ is a book that represents sovereignty and kindness from God. There are certain apparent strategies are being used in the story of captivity narrative, these enable the story to have a positive connection attaches to the audience.‘The Crucible’ is also a book that was determined as a ‘highly dramatic and powerful’ play receives from the audience. Both of the books are considered very successful due to the public reactions. There are mainly three different rhetorical strategies play a important role in the books, they are the speakers, pathos, and logos. Each one of them provides a great consciousness of interactions between the speakers, the audiences, and the text from the …show more content…
In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, "Yet the Lord still showed mercy to me; and as He wounded me with one hand, so he healed me with the other”(Mary Rowlandson, 156). In this quotation, it has been demonstrated that god offers mercy to people by giving them the hope for living the future. This principle is an essential phase to Christian, which god the the guide for everything they need. Therefore, when Rowlandson presented it in the book, it establishes a emotional connection between the audience and the book, which makes the readers be more interested into the book. In The Crucible, Proctor also depends on pathos when it fits to him. For instance, when he talks about whether is not suitable for the church in Paris, he asks, "Can you speak one minute without we land in Hell again? I am sick of Hell!” (Arthur Miller, 143) He seems to think that the minister's service is suppose to be more than just a intimidation or a complaint; Proctor actually wants the church to be able to help him feel better inside his heart, instead of beating himself down. In terms of using emotions in the argument, Arthur Miller used the emotions of anger, for the sake of generating emotions in the book’s audience. In short, the using of pathos is able to build an connection and establishing a relationship between the book and the …show more content…
In A Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson, As Mr Rowlandson's long journey of being prisoned by Native Americans, she was confused and surprised by the attitude changes from American aborigines. The reason is that sometimes she has been taken a good care by them, in other time she is deprived of food or subjected with certain violent treatment. She says "Sometimes I met with favor, and sometimes with nothing but frowns.” (Mary Rowlandson, 122). Mary’s statement shows she is not surprised by neither goodwill or violence, it proves that her understanding of the prisoner is more complicated, which appeals to logos. In The Crucible, John Promert performs his thoughts based on the logic reason when he deals with the superstitious and rumored beliefs from the sick girl. The Rebecca nurse addressed that it is a requirement to ensure the children simply have a ‘silly seasons’ by running more logical way that you will never catch, and he says," "Aye, that's the truth of it, Rebecca.”(Arthur Miller, 156). Proctor relies heavily on his logos in his communications with others. In short, logos are often being used in both book, because it prove the author’s understanding and intelligence, offered credible evidences which support his

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