Rhetorical Analysis Of Free Will By George Will

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With having a background already on the idea of what the government interest served by disenfranchising felons. The definition of disenfranchising felons is basically taking away their rights to votes. George Will first starts talking about how people that may have made by chooses when they were younger, have turned it around but since for example, he stated in Florida people that have been convicted have been disgraced because of their past. He uses the example of Desmond Meade that turned his life around trying to paint the picture of someone that was involved in drugs and what not having that one accident or being in a “bummy path of life”. “He is a graduate of Florida International University law school but cannot vote in his home state …show more content…

everyone in life goes through a rough patch and states such as Gloria trying to take away their rights trying to take away they are so right such as voting and other things. Will goes off By telling someone else's story and showing that 14.7 million card citizens Nationwide who are or about to be as a society from prison still and tell him Mende story who which is an African American who has graduated from the law school still has a chance in this world. Will uses many rhetorical Devices throughout his work such as pathos Meade's life trying to make the reader feel as if he started his life he was homeless what's a convicted felon drug and showing that he turned his life around trying to convince the readers that people that going to jail still have a chance to turn their life around so why are we going to hold their mistakes from the past against them. Trying to give some sort of emotion backstory from this law that that doesn't give him the right to vote anymore. he also uses logos by trying to make the reader speed where Mende's Falls within the statistics within the state of Florida showing that he's part of the one and of 20% of African Americans in Florida that are disenfranchised. Last week he uses ethos trying to give that credibility of someone to trust someone That is very knowledgeable of the situation and how someone that went through the system of jail understands how the people that come out of jail that are trying to be restored back into society and how they understand what the people are going through. trying to show that man this is trying to help those because when he came out of jail with no one tried to help him back on his feet trying to give him his right so you trying to give that favor that he didn't