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How Does Marion Lazan Use Ethos Pathos Logos

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Marion Blumenthal Lazan and Maya Angelou’s are two very inspirational, intelligent, and smart women. Marion Lazan was a Holocaust survivor that tells her story all around the world today about the gruesome trudges that she experienced at a young age. Maya Angelou was a poet, author, civil rights activist, and the list goes on and on. She is known for her memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings in 1969. Marion Lazan and Maya Angelou both have been through some rough times but were able to tell us their stories. They have inspired so many people to spread good and love those with hatred. Rhetoric Strategies is the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing; may be defined as the faculty of observing in any given case the available means of persuasion. The three strategies are logos (strategy of reason, logic, or facts), ethos (strategy of credibility authority, or character), and pathos (strategy of emotions and affect); Lazan and Angelou speeches were all of those strategies. They both used logos because they gave you reason why you should treat everyone the same, that in many ways than one we are all …show more content…

Lazan used her life experiences with logos because she has a reason; she tells people her story so we do not have to repeat that period of time. Lazan has credibility and character from her experiences in those concentrations camps, she was taken to a concentration at the age of 9; her family was torn apart. If you think about having your family apart like Lazan’s was you would get really sad and even have anger that people torn families up just because they were different than everyone else. Angelou said that you have remember the people that helped you no matter what your religion or race is. She has that credibility because when someone helped her she made sure that they were not forgotten that their work was useful in her becoming

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