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