Rhetorical Analysis Of A Good Man Down By Lee Jenkins

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In "A Good Man Down," by Lee Jenkins, the emotional appeal to pathos clearly stands out with the loss of this town from the tornado, to the loss of the man that held the town together. To me, the strongest moments in Jenkins' writing was when he used logos to establish a clear, reasonable, logical progression of his ideas based around the theme, "the field, and what the football field stood for to the town. In a small town of 1,900, people know each other and knew each other well. Then you have people like Ed Thomas who was a leader on and off the field. People observed his leadership and saw his character and his love for the game and what he did to be successful as a coach, even down to the smallest detail of caring for "the field." Jenkins

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