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Can this author escape the use of rhetorical appeals?
“Escape. The moment had come.” (Jessop 1) What you have just read was the beginning of the non-fiction book Escape by Carolyn Jessop. Jessop's book tells the story of a young girl who grows up and is forced into an arranged marriage. When that marriage has pushed all its limits Jessop decides to escape. Jessop effectively convinces her audience; the public that she will no longer be confined to her situation and will stand up for herself by escaping. She relays this central ideas through evidence of her life and the issues that arose in it. Jessop appeals to ethos by building credibility and trust with her intended audience of the general public. She does this by adding emotion, using the …show more content…

Jessop pulls at the reader's hearts with stories of arranged marriages. These marriages throw a ploy in the story and Jessop compares her marriage to the other wives. Jessop writes” She was about to marry the most powerful man in the FLDS who, at eighty-two, would probably never notice his new wife”. (164) She then proceeds to talk about the age gap in her marriage as well as Loretta’s and how much of a struggle it would be for Loretta to find love with her husband. This example of pathos continues to compel readers to feel a certain way making them want to read more to find out what happens to the marriages and how the women are treated. Jessop continues to create a story that flows in chronological order to her story which adds to her logos credibility and story purpose. She furthers this by writing extensively and in great detail about her trips with her husband and wives. Each time she is put in a new place it is always names and there and instances where people are named to be seen there. This backs up what she is saying because it could be looked into and her story would line up with facts. This builds her logos because she can be seen somewhere else with many other people explaining that what she writes in her story is true to real-life events that happened to

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