Rhetorical Analysis
In the story “For Those I Love, I Will Sacrifice” shows many rhetorical devices. When a person goes through a training camp, they will experience many different hardships. These hardships will be expressed throughout the story using many different rhetorical devices. These experiences will be shown through the appeal of ethos, pathos, and logos.
The appeal of ethos is barely shown throughout “For Those I Love, I will Sacrifice.” Ethos is the credibility in which the author can persuade the reader that what they are reading is true. In “For Those I Love, I Will Sacrifice” shows ethos when he leaves for basic training camp. His mom is there to tell him that it was like” saying goodbye to [him] on [his] first day of kindergarten” …show more content…
Logos is persuasion through reason. Throughout the whole story, the author talks about how hard basic combat training is. In the end, he was able to graduate basic combat training on September 11, 2014. I understand that the author has gone through a lot during training camp and that was all for the reason of graduating training camp. This is logos because the reason was to graduate training camp. At the end, the author talks about “you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have” (Rivera 18). This has persuaded me to keep on moving forward. This is logos because this is also reasonable to the readers. No one will ever know how strong you can be without actually being at your strongest. When the author talks about “instead of going to the bathroom, we [would] lay on the cold floor and take a nap” (Rivera 18). I would do the same because of the amount of physical work that has been done throughout the day. The extra sleep would provide us a little boost of energy, and it seems logical to take one if you did not need to go to the bathroom. This is logos because it is a reasonable
In the story “For Those I Love, I Will Sacrifice” shows many rhetorical devices. When a person goes through a training camp, they will experience many different hardships. These hardships will be expressed throughout the story using many different rhetorical devices. These experiences will be shown through the appeal of ethos, pathos, and logos.
The appeal of ethos is barely shown throughout “For Those I Love, I will Sacrifice.” Ethos is the credibility in which the author can persuade the reader that what they are reading is true. In “For Those I Love, I Will Sacrifice” shows ethos when he leaves for basic training camp. His mom is there to tell him that it was like” saying goodbye to [him] on [his] first day of kindergarten” …show more content…
Logos is persuasion through reason. Throughout the whole story, the author talks about how hard basic combat training is. In the end, he was able to graduate basic combat training on September 11, 2014. I understand that the author has gone through a lot during training camp and that was all for the reason of graduating training camp. This is logos because the reason was to graduate training camp. At the end, the author talks about “you never know how strong you are until being strong is the only choice you have” (Rivera 18). This has persuaded me to keep on moving forward. This is logos because this is also reasonable to the readers. No one will ever know how strong you can be without actually being at your strongest. When the author talks about “instead of going to the bathroom, we [would] lay on the cold floor and take a nap” (Rivera 18). I would do the same because of the amount of physical work that has been done throughout the day. The extra sleep would provide us a little boost of energy, and it seems logical to take one if you did not need to go to the bathroom. This is logos because it is a reasonable