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The Power of Persuasion In the book Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of boys are stranded on an island and they create their own form of government. Throughout the book the boys have various speeches and meetings and three of the boys, Ralph, Jack, and Piggy, tend to have the most speeches, Ralph is the chief of the island and Jack is the leader of the hunters. All three boys have different speech techniques, but they use ethos, logos, and pathos in all of their speeches. However, their use of ethos, pathos, or logos isn’t always effective and the boys tend to use one over another. The first boy who we hear many speeches from is Ralph, he and Piggy are the first two boys we read about on the island, and since the beginning of the book Ralph has been a …show more content…

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When we first meet Jack in the book He tries using ethos to persuade the boys to vote for him, he told them he was already a leader and was in charge of the choir so he should be chief. Nonetheless, Ralph was voted chief. During one of the first meetings, one of the littluns mentions they are scared of a “beastie” and Ralph simply just says “there isn’t a beastie!” Jack tells them that when he and his choir, or hunters, go hunting they will find it and kill the beast if it is real (Golding 36). We can see that Jack uses the littluns’ fear to gain their trust and make himself seem powerful, therefore he uses pathos to persuade the littluns. All in all, Jack is most effective in using pathos, but he mostly appeals to the hunters and the

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Rhetorical Device Analysis The book Lord of the Flies is an amazing novel written by William Golding about a group of boys who have to survive alone on an island due to a plane crash. The boys gather on the island and make a plan to be rescued. They establish rules and vote for a chief, Ralph, one of the older boys on the island, wins to the other candidate Jack. After weeks of being on the island, the boys start becoming unproductive and miss the chance of being saved by a ship.

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Gisele Souto Mr. Sandefur Hon English 10B - 6 28 March 2023 The Three Modes of Persuasion in Lord of the Flies Lord of the Flies is a famous novel written by William Golding in 1954 about a group of young British boys who have been deserted together on an island with no authoritative figure to watch over them. Throughout the novel, the boys struggle to create a stable structure of society in order to survive. Golding uses many literary devices throughout his novel.

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Piggy is very intelligent, he comes up with ideas on how to help the boys survive on the island from the moment they crashed on it. Ralph starts begins to admire him for this clear focus on their rescue off the island. “ we can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They'll come when they hear us” (Pg 16)

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There are three main characters of the book: Jack, Ralph, and Piggy. Jack is where the immorality on the island originates from, and it spreads to the other boys. Jack is very reckless and careless in his decisions. Ralph was the leader of the island, until Jack took control of the tribe and turned all of them into savages. Ralph was an image for the boys to follow but spoke Piggy’s words.

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In the novel, a group of boys were stranded on an island after a plane crash. They had to figure out how to survive and how to find resources. They created something like a committee, and Ralph was voted chief. He became in charge of all the boys on the island, Piggy being one of them. Piggy was smart and had good ideas.

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He uses scare tactics and the inevitable fear of the beast to manipulate the boys into giving him more power. In chapter 9, Jack’s tribe is talking about the night before. Reaching the topic of Simon, Jack tells the group that the Beast was disguised as Simon. He also tells them that the beast is still alive. He puts the Beast on a God-like pedestal, making the beast the main focus of this discussion.

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“Lord of the Flies” by William Golding is a novel published in 1954 in which a group of boys from Britain get stranded on an uninhabited island, and in an attempt to govern themselves become brutal and violent without adults to serve as a civilizing impulse. With Ralph being chief he needs to persuade the rest of the boys to do what's best to get off the island and survive in the meantime. However, not all the boys will acclimate to Ralph and his rulership. The boys use the three common modes of persuasion: Ethos, Pathos, and Logos, to convince the mass to do what they feel is the best course of action.

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And that is how he retains his power. When he lets them be “afraid together they discover that the violence within them can be almost bottomless” (Golding, “Why”). He aims the boys’ fear at who or whatever he wants destroyed, and they destroy it. Jack channels the boys’ fear into the dance, and when the circle is broken by another boy coming out of the woods, they literally maul him to death because now that boy is the object of their fear, so they become aggressive. Because Jack is the boys’ chief, and he encourages fear to retain his own power, and fear leads to strife, the boys act

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He thrives in an environment where he is the leader of the tribe, as seen with his choir. When Ralph is coined as the leader, Jack attempts to fight back to suit his environment to his more vital traits but fails. “Ralph thinks you're cowards, running away from the boar and the beast. and that's not all” (golding 129). Jack’s failure to be chief only worsens his actions since he is such a prideful person, and the fact that he is in an environment that does not highlight his strengths worsens it.

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He obsesses over killing a pig and doesn’t care about being rescued. When the young boys start talking about “the beastie” he jumps at the opportunity to hunt it and show he’d be a better leader. He doesn’t even actually believe in the beast but “If there’s a beast, [he’ll] hunt it down! [and he’ll] close in and beat” it. Jack shows how evil is in all of us and the only thing stopping us from embracing that side of ourselves is society’s rules and

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Ralph is first introduced as the fair boy who is a natural born leader. He applies Piggy’s intelligence to think of a way to summon the other survivors on the island. Ralph follows through with Piggy’s idea and uses the conch which emits a loud sound that can be hear through the island. The sound eventually lures the group of boys towards them. His leader instincts are best portrayed when he’s able to side with Jack after offering to share his power: “The suffusion drained away from Jack’s face.

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