How Does The Attack By Louis Pitts Acquire Resilience In America?

Through first portraying the audiences' shared confusion and expressing the terrorists actions, next revealing the American people's pain, then lastly implying resilience in America and reassuring their strength, Pitts motivates America to come together and combine their strengths to respond and advance from the attackers.

In the first section of the poem “We’ll Go Forward from this Moment”, Louis Pitts questions the motives of the terrorists by beginning to express his anger or confusion towards the attackers and slowly uplifting the Americans from comparing strength and weakness to asking questions which reflects his threat to the terrorists. After stating his resentment towards the terrorists, Pitts aggressively says, “Did you want us

Adding on, Pitts mentions, directed towards the attackers, ““Some people - you, perhaps - think that any or all of this makes us weak. You’re mistaken. We are not weak. Indeed, we are strong in ways that cannot be measured by arsenals” (Pitts 1). He makes a distinction between what makes someone strong and weak. The terrorists didn’t make the American people weak, it made them stronger which he clarifies in this evidence. Pitts helps to communicate his message through this quote because as he makes the difference between someone who’s weak and someone who’s strong, he is also indirectly threatening the attacker as their actions did cause destruction and death’s but it didn’t destroy the American peoples strength. The quote indicates he before was expressing how devastated the American people were from this attack, but unlike the terrorists think, it doesn’t make them weak, it makes them strong. Through this distinction he shows that there is fear from the rise of terrorism and although America is imperfect, the difference in strength and weakness portrays that. Pitts also appeals to logos in this evidence similarly to the other quote, with fear. Although he appeals a little differently as he

As Pitts is explaining the pain and blood the attackers caused, he specifies, ““But there’s a gulf of difference between making us bloody and making us fall” (Pitts 1). Pitts is contrasting how even after these attacks they may be bloody/hurt, that doesn’t mean it has made them become defeated. Even through all this conflict and horrific actions, they will deal with all the pain and strive for strength and justice. This evidence also goes back to the message of threatening the attackers as they thought they destroyed the Americans pride and expressing how the American people can rise from this stronger and united. This quote indicates Pitts conveying that the American people haven’t given up/been torn down. Although, it is expressed that the Americans are devastated and this terrorist attack caused lots of fear as he mentioned “making us bloody”, he always says that there's a difference between being bloody and making someone fall which also shows how American is imperfect but doesn’t mean that they can’t unite and become stronger from it. Additionally, he appeals to pathos through the audience's sense of pride reassuring and