In American society, violence runs rampage throughout the country causing its citizens to be trepidacious and demoralize. One of the major components of violence in America emanates from guns. In the documentary, "Bowling for Columbine", Michael Moore, a famous filmmaker, addresses the ubiquitous situation in America. He argues that the use of gun in America co-insides or correlates to the recent massacres; as a whole, America should have stricter gun control laws. Throughout the film, Moore uses specific references to stricter gun control laws by employing ethos, pathos and logos to construct his argument in order to convince his audience.
The first rhetorical appeal he uses in the film is ethos. Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal …show more content…
Logos is the appeal to logic which means to convince the audience that argument can be prove or dispelled through common sense or logical thinking. Moore uses logos several time to explain his argument that gun control should have more restrictions. For instance, Moore brings up an interview with a blind man who has a gun. Anyone with common sense will notice that there is a problem with situation. A man in his early forties is seeing impaired but has in his possession a gun and uses it since he passed all of the legal procedure. From this example, Moore creates a comical precedent that really makes the spectators see why he favors stricter gun laws. In doing his research, Moore found out that there has been range of more than 11,000 causalities in America a year by gunshots which ranks America as number one of all the countries with most casualties by guns. As a result, the data can be used to write a correlation that the presiding gun laws may an effect on the mortality rates of America.
Furthermore, Michael Moore proved himself as a great filmmaker, for he presented himself to be very credible person, compassionate and understanding person to the people who were killed by the presiding guns law, and a logical person by doing research of statistical data and mundane thinking to provide faults in the current laws. The movie was well structure in a way that the movie provided strong evidence to support the issue of gun control limitation and used a strong style of persuasion through the three rhetorical devices to not only educate the spectator, but entertain him or her with the
The first rhetorical appeal he uses in the film is ethos. Ethos is the credibility or ethical appeal …show more content…
Logos is the appeal to logic which means to convince the audience that argument can be prove or dispelled through common sense or logical thinking. Moore uses logos several time to explain his argument that gun control should have more restrictions. For instance, Moore brings up an interview with a blind man who has a gun. Anyone with common sense will notice that there is a problem with situation. A man in his early forties is seeing impaired but has in his possession a gun and uses it since he passed all of the legal procedure. From this example, Moore creates a comical precedent that really makes the spectators see why he favors stricter gun laws. In doing his research, Moore found out that there has been range of more than 11,000 causalities in America a year by gunshots which ranks America as number one of all the countries with most casualties by guns. As a result, the data can be used to write a correlation that the presiding gun laws may an effect on the mortality rates of America.
Furthermore, Michael Moore proved himself as a great filmmaker, for he presented himself to be very credible person, compassionate and understanding person to the people who were killed by the presiding guns law, and a logical person by doing research of statistical data and mundane thinking to provide faults in the current laws. The movie was well structure in a way that the movie provided strong evidence to support the issue of gun control limitation and used a strong style of persuasion through the three rhetorical devices to not only educate the spectator, but entertain him or her with the