In the movie Lean on Me, Joe Clark persuades the staff and students that hard work is necessary in order to be successful through the use of Ethos, Pathos and Logos. The start of the movie shows that Mr. Clark was a hard, stern man. He didn’t take crap from others and didn’t take no for an answer. Ethos appeals to the credibility of character. Mr. Clark was a great judge of character and because of that he knew what he had to do when he became in charge of the school. A bold move, but what he had done was expel all of the hoodlums and drug dealers and just the bad apples. He took all the kids who didn’t belong in that school and kicked them out. He believes in order for his students to do better he has to get rid of the negative influence. Further into the movie Mr. Clark decides to address his students before they go and take the state exam. He tells the students that everyone else, that society thinks that everyone that goes to their school isn’t good enough. That all his students …show more content…
Clark uses this a lot through the movie, he knows how to speak to people, he can be very blunt and straightforward. At the start of the movie, Mr. Clark Approaches his students, all of them at once and voices his opinion of them. He tells him that he believes that they are better than what they have been lead to believe. That he knows that the students are smart and have the potential to be better than they have ever been. He makes the students hopeful, makes them feel like they are worth something. He believes that in order for his students to succeed they need to feel like they can. They have to be told that they can do it. Like near the end of the movie, when his students are preparing to take the exam, Mr. Clark gets his students together again to talk to them. He tells them that they aren’t what everyone says they are. He tells them that they aren’t trash, that they aren’t inferior they are just as good as everyone else and they will