After Tom robinson was accused of attacking a white girl. He was forced to defend himself in court, but as a black negro it is hard to have any people listen to high in a pro white society / time period. However his lawyer Atticus uses both emotional and logical appeal to convince the jury of Tom Robinson’s innocence. He also has used multiply accounts of other persuasive techniques throughout the story.
The persuasive techniques used throughout the story include loaded language, Repetition and ethical appeal. Loaded language is seen multiple times throughout this court case. He uses both examples of good and bad connotation to show that his defendant was innocent. Examples of good connotation can be seen in words like “God, family, humble, …show more content…
Examples of his emotional appeals are shown through when Atticus says “I have nothing but pity … but my pity does not extend so far as putting a man’s life at stake of which she has done in an effort to rid of her own guilt” as well as “And so, a quiet, humble, respectable negro, who has unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman has put his word against two white peoples.” His emotional appeal in the first quote is saying that Mayell is only doing it for herself. It is wrong to place a man into jail to hide a guilt that you yourself had done. The second quote is saying that a negro had to strength to come up and speak against 2 white people even though he knows it may make him a target of acts of racism against him but he still did so. He also uses logical appeal when he is talking about the evidence that says Robinson was innocent. He says that there is not one medical evidence that shows tom was guilty as well as the two witnesses that say Robinson is guilty come into serious question on cross examination of their evidence and that Robinson was right handed while the attacker being right handed. He used these pieces of evidence to show that Mayella was lying about the crime and the evidence they have cannot be trusted. Other evidence also shows that it couldn't have been Robinson and it was someone
The persuasive techniques used throughout the story include loaded language, Repetition and ethical appeal. Loaded language is seen multiple times throughout this court case. He uses both examples of good and bad connotation to show that his defendant was innocent. Examples of good connotation can be seen in words like “God, family, humble, …show more content…
Examples of his emotional appeals are shown through when Atticus says “I have nothing but pity … but my pity does not extend so far as putting a man’s life at stake of which she has done in an effort to rid of her own guilt” as well as “And so, a quiet, humble, respectable negro, who has unmitigated temerity to feel sorry for a white woman has put his word against two white peoples.” His emotional appeal in the first quote is saying that Mayell is only doing it for herself. It is wrong to place a man into jail to hide a guilt that you yourself had done. The second quote is saying that a negro had to strength to come up and speak against 2 white people even though he knows it may make him a target of acts of racism against him but he still did so. He also uses logical appeal when he is talking about the evidence that says Robinson was innocent. He says that there is not one medical evidence that shows tom was guilty as well as the two witnesses that say Robinson is guilty come into serious question on cross examination of their evidence and that Robinson was right handed while the attacker being right handed. He used these pieces of evidence to show that Mayella was lying about the crime and the evidence they have cannot be trusted. Other evidence also shows that it couldn't have been Robinson and it was someone