This week in TYFA I read about Aristotle’s
three essential qualities of persuasive ethos. Virtue, practical wisdom, and
disinterest are the three qualities.
Virtue is making the audience believe you share their values. When I think of virtue, I think of my
parents. But after reading rhetorically
virtue has a different meaning. This
means to hold up the values of a group.
This quality is shown by Foer.
After reading a little more of the book I respect Foer’s virtues. He pulls the reader in with his views on
certain subjects. He does this by not
just being extreme on a certain view but instead he takes a side but doesn’t attack
the other side. He says pros and cons of
both sides by using facts instead of just giving his personal opinion. Even if you don’t agree with him you sill
respect his views. Since I respect his
values the book pulls me in and helps me understand his values. In chapter 2 Foer uses a lot of ethos which
really pulled me into the story. Another
thing Foer did well was he used pathos very well to pull the audience into his
story right away. This worked for me and
I’m sure it did for a lot of other people.
Foer also used logos in Chapter two by providing facts and it shows he
has stuff to back his viewpoints up. An example
of logos is when he says how many fish are still alive that have been around for
the past fifty to one hundred years.
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