Ethos In The Narrative Of The Life Of Fredrick Douglas

Creatures Ruled by Emotions ANGER! PASSION! TRAGEDY! OUTRAGE! These words carry a powerful meaning that can be used to stir the emotions of people.

A Narrartive of the Life of Fredrick Douglass is an autobiography abouta self- freed slave, by the name of Fredrick Douglass. Fredrick Douglass was born into slavery. his birth name was Fredrick Augustus Washington Bailey. he was born in Talbot County, Maryland, not really sure if it was in 1817, or 1818.

In his autobiography, Douglass tackled different themes such as the coming of age, ignorance, perversity of slavery and the resistance. Those issues insituted the basis of this narrative. Frederick Douglass recounted all the life changing events which contributed in creating his own identity and his personality as well. The influence of William Lloyd Garrison was really shown in the autobiography. Douglass demonstrate his attachement with his own name, he could not change it because he represented his identity.

The Holocaust was a time of massive suffering for Jewish people. According to The National Holocaust Museum, 6 million Jewish people were killed in gas chambers, being shot, and being straight up murdered.[1] This was a time when Jewish people could have used someone like Frederick Douglass. When put in context, Frederick Douglass exhibited moral courage in a way that got African-Americans out of slavery. Moral courage, “is a good or altruistic action(s) in which the bearer of the action(s) is due to massive consequences if caught.”

The things that I 'm really catching onto and just feeling the utmost horror for is the simple things that we 're all aware of but Douglass doesn 't seem to have the slightest clue. Obvious things such as our birthdays... I can tell you mine without even thinking whether you just want the number of the month or the actual month. I can narrow it down to a time frame and tell you what day of the week I was born on, but Frederick Douglass ' guess was as good as the next guy 's. "I have now reached a period of my life when I can give dates" (Douglass 45). When I read that I had to stop and think.

In the autobiography, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Douglass discusses the hardships he encounters that transformed him from an unknowledgable slave to a powerful man who took a stand for the abolishment of slavery. He utilizes an assertive tone in order to grasp the attention of a primarily white audience because he believes they are the only ones who can penetrate moral judgement into the heads of slaveholders of the South. Douglass characterizes Christianity as the most influential source that encourages the continuation of slavery. The growing fear and brutality among slaveholders towards many slaves persists as long as slaveholders manipulate religion as a validation for their actions. Douglass uncovers

Gladwell uses Ethos as well in Blink quite frequently. The way he uses ethos to confirm the credibility of the hypothesis and research he expresses. Through ethos we are persuaded to believe the research is true and that we can put trust in the

Moving along to another author Frederick Douglass represent an American slave who argument the ways for freedom and the virtual ruler how the American should be in their life. In his work " Narrative of the Life" Douglass started to tell us about his life and to get the connection with others which means his life as a slave it does have any change from them. The effect of this narrative is give the reality with all positive and negative complex the life had in society. He said in chapter I "...ever have meet a slave who could tell of his birthday."

“What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” Rhetorical Analysis In “What to the slave is the Fourth of July?” Fredrick Douglass, a former slave bough his freedom in 1847 as well as a leading figure in the antislavery movement, planned to criticize a free white man’s joy while there is slavery going on. Douglass’s purpose is to direct his opinion to the hypocrisy of the nation that celebrates Independence Day even though at the same time they had 4 million slaves imprisoned.

Ethos is when one gives credibility. President Johnson has credibility in his speech when he claims, “Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Members of the congress…” Mr. President also uses ethos when he states “...at the request of your beloved speaker, and the senator from Montana, the majority leader, the Senator from Illinois, the minority leader, Mr. McCulloch, and other members of both parties, I came here tonight…” These are example of ethos by giving credibility to everyone he mentioned. Aside from ethos there is pathos. Pathos is the passion in a speech or writing.

Pathos is a rhetorical device used for providing emotion to the reader. He wants the reader to feel sympathetic towards the mistreatment of African-Americans. In the introduction, the first rhetorical device he introduced is pathos. Coates present pathos when he introduced Clyde Ross. He titles the first chapter as, “So that’s just one of my losses”.

In 1845, former slave and abolitionist Frederick Douglass published an autobiography expressing his life growing up as property and eventually obtaining freedom. The book is a well written piece into understanding slavery in America during the eighteenth century. Beginning with him explaining his parentage and early childhood in Maryland, to meeting his wife Anna Murray and escaping to the north to become a free man. Douglass’s memoir is meant to portray the cruelty slaves received from their masters, and convince the reader that blacks are capable of academic success. His writing style can be described as blunt and objective, especially when depicting violent imagery.

Douglass’ autobiography Narrative of The Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave was among the first Slave Narratives written by a former slave. Also, it was written differently in a new autobiographical form, glorifying the conflicts, the struggles and the success of an individual in place of recounting a story following a chronological order which is the classic form of an autobiography. Frederick Douglass consolidated different ideologies and philosophies in his work because he was very inspired by Henry Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson who were considered as leaders in philosophy. Douglass’ narrative was used to defend the human rights, criticizing religion but also as a political context.

On July 5th 1852 Fredrick Douglass gave a speech to the anti-slavery society to show that all men and woman are equal no matter what. Douglass uses ethos, pathos, and logos in his speech to make look reasonable. Douglass demonstrates ethos by speaking in first person that of which he had experience slavery: "I was born amid such sights and scenes"(Douglass 4). When Douglass spoke these words to the society, they knew of his personal knowledge and was able to depend on him has a reliable source of information. The anti-slavery society listening to his every word, considering that Douglass spoke with integrity, knowledge and emotions.

This appeals to ethos because Douglass has lived through slavery and can speak firsthand about what really happens. He has proven a credible source because he can explain, in immense detail, the events that took place. He provides accurate dates from his life as a slave. This appeals to logos because Douglass explains his situations with as much detail as possible, and uses accurate accounts of dates, settings, facts, and