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Fredrick Douglass

Analysis of Fredrick Douglass:-

The intended audience:-

- New generation who do not have knowledge about slavery.

- Whites and free blacks people.

- People from different culture and background.

Author's purpose:-

- Inspiring people through history of slavery.

- Conveying an image about suffering of the slaves.

Logos:-

 - Content is organized logically since it started from early age till adult age.

Pathos:-
- By using personal pronoun (I), he tried to showing his suffering.
- Sad, shocking story, sympathy, and shame because what happened to them.
- Describing torturing scene.
- Couldn't  see her mother before her death.

Ethos:-
- He is a slave.
- His determination to learn reading and writing. 
- don't know his birth date and father.

*Critical reading look for missing information, hyperbole and understatement, and pattern.

*Pattern (analysis):-
  p.3- [Mr. plummer] would whip [my own aunt] to make her scream, and whip her to make her hush; and not until overcome by fatigue would he cease to swing the blood-clotted cowskin...It was the blood-stained gate, [the entrance to the hell of slavery, through which I was about to pass.]
- scene reflected the brutal treatment of slaves by their slaveholders
   

Rhetoric

Rhetoric:- 

     It means the art of conversing and thinking within specific situation and for specific purpose. It derived from a Greek word.

Rhetorical techniques:- 
They compose from:-

- Logos:- appeal through logic.

             - It is the appeal to reason, to the forcefulness of a well  thought out and well structured position. 

- Pathos:- appeal through emotion.
                - It is the use of emotion in debate or argument.

- Ethos:- appeal through credibility.
             - It is the credibility that a speaker or writer brings to the subject that he or she is communication about.

Notes from Portfolio Keeping book