Martin Luther King Beyond Vietnam Ethos

Imagine making a speech in front of large audience. The speech "Beyond Vietnam - A Time to Break Silence" by Martin Luther King Jr. was delivered at Riverside Church in New York City on April 4, 1967. He effectively builds an argument by using three models of persuasion ethos, pathos, and logos to persuade his audience that American involvement in the Vietnam War is unjust. The first technique King used is based on ethos, establishing his credibility. King convinces the audience gaining credibility describing how the "desperate, rejected, and angry young men," (...) "ask - and rightly so - what about Vietnam?" in feedback to King's thought in peace. He then describes that "Their questions hit home" and that he must, "For the sake of these boys" (...) "for the sake of the hundreds of thousands trembling under our violence, I cannot be silent." By the raising the importance of disengaging with Vietnam through the details of true concerns of the trouble of the poor, else known as the victims of

He attempts to call upon sympathy within the audience by using highly expressive language. For instance, he starts by stating the effects of the Vietnam War forced the American poverty program: "experiments, hopes, new beginnings." down the pipe, "I watched this program broken and eviscerated" through the "buildup in Vietnam,". Through the emotional, destruction of America's effort to support the war, King's powerful use of diction talking the loss of desire and new lives causes the audience to feel sorry for the poor of America. King uses quotes as these to suggest to convince them of the destruction of the Vietnam War, with pathos, by strongly appealing to his audience's emotion. King is well aware that an audience that experiences strong emotional response to this speech is more likely to be convinced of his