Rhetorical Analysis Of The First Trial By Grisham

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With the discussion of a retrial for Ron and Dennis, many questions are raised about the wrongdoings in their first trials when they received their sentences. In addressing the issues, Grisham utilizes anaphora(failure to) and tricolon to accentuate the horrific injustice within the law system. In the first trial, the lawyers, witnesses, and jurors made numerous errors in presenting and understanding evidence, as well as hiding potential evidence that could have set the two men free. In particular, Ron’s lawyer Barney Ward made countless mistakes that led to Ron’s downfall. Grisham uses rhetorical strategies to explain his errors in a way that makes it interesting for the reader, while still emphasizing the failures of Ward to show how poorly