Bragg starts out his article with very strong pathos, telling fabled old wife tales that are told to the young and questioned by the growing. One such tale he mentions his grandmother in, even adding in, “God rest her soul”, a somewhat push to the reader to feel heavier. To continue his use of pathos, Bragg relays to his readers a story about southern pride, when The University of Alabama was to face off in one of the biggest games the south had ever witnessed. Bragg quotes Wayne Flynt in his article scribing, “…Southerns knew there was too much at stake to lose. ‘Even the president of Auburn sent a telegram’ says Flynt, “tell them, You are defending the honor of the South’”. Across all boundaries of human life, there is rivalry, it is one of the most human experiences that anyone could ever experience. By showing that even the University of Alabama’s biggest rival, Auburn University, Bragg put in perspective to the reader just how important it was for the south to prove themselves worthy. The fact that the south felt it detrimental that football game was to be won besides being casted away as an underdog by the rest of the country, shows the south was not always the powerhouse it is today, a logical fallacy often over looked when facing today’s
Bragg starts out his article with very strong pathos, telling fabled old wife tales that are told to the young and questioned by the growing. One such tale he mentions his grandmother in, even adding in, “God rest her soul”, a somewhat push to the reader to feel heavier. To continue his use of pathos, Bragg relays to his readers a story about southern pride, when The University of Alabama was to face off in one of the biggest games the south had ever witnessed. Bragg quotes Wayne Flynt in his article scribing, “…Southerns knew there was too much at stake to lose. ‘Even the president of Auburn sent a telegram’ says Flynt, “tell them, You are defending the honor of the South’”. Across all boundaries of human life, there is rivalry, it is one of the most human experiences that anyone could ever experience. By showing that even the University of Alabama’s biggest rival, Auburn University, Bragg put in perspective to the reader just how important it was for the south to prove themselves worthy. The fact that the south felt it detrimental that football game was to be won besides being casted away as an underdog by the rest of the country, shows the south was not always the powerhouse it is today, a logical fallacy often over looked when facing today’s