Question

In his closing argument during the Hinckley assassination trial, defense attorney Vincent Fuller sald to the jury:
"First is the spring of 1976 when John Hinckley Impulsively (goes) out, abruptly sells his automobile and goes to California to become a rock star or a song writer. Unrealistic, absolutely
unrealistic. He had not had one moment of training in music. And he believed he would come on the front of Hollywood and be an instant success. Needless to say, he was a total failure and it
resulted in his depression, despair, and disappointment. He made another aborted effort, I believe in 1978, where the doctors testified he went to Nashville again with great expectations of being
a rock star. Once again his hopes were dashed, because, obviously, these were unrealistic goals. Whether at that point in time they are psychotic, obviously we are not qualified to address that.
You should consider that, though, in your deliberations."
Evaluate Fuller's argument in terms of logos, pathos, and ethos. Use evidence from the statement to support your answer. Your response should be a minimum of five sentences. (25 points)

Answer 1

Answer:

In the beginning of his argument, Fuller uses logos and pathos to establish what type of person Hinckley is. When describing Hinckley's plan to "become a rock star or a songwriter," he calls it unrealistic. Here, the author uses ethos; the audience must feel some sort of emotions after hearing such a harsh and negative approach at someone else's dreams. But once he explains that this dream wouldn't make sense because he hadn't had, "one moment of training in music," this is where Fuller uses logos and the audience uses their own logic to accept Fuller's argument. He continues using pathos by using negative words to describe Hinckley and even saying that his goals might have been considered "psychotic." Clearly, Fuller wants to make the audience feel how unrealistic and sad Hinckley's goals were to establish a connection in his argument.

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Answer 2

This is the evaluation of Fuller's argument in terms of logos, pathos and ethos:

Fuller uses logos when he gives to the audience logical arguments agains Hinckley. For example, when he says that Hinckley had not had any training in music.

We could say he uses ethos when he gives specific information about dates, because it gives the audience the idea that he knows what he is talking about, his information is accurate and specific.

Then, he is constantly using pathos because he describes Hinckley's dreams and that produces feelings to the audience. However, he explains why those dreams were not realistic and how his personality was.

What are logos, ethos and pathos?

• Logos appeals to the audience's reason so they are very logical arguments.

• Pathos appeals to the audience's emotions, so the arguments have to make the audience feel something, it does not matter if it is a negative or possitive feeling (depending what the argument is).

• Ethos is different because it appeals to the audience's credibility in the person who is speaking. This person has to show arguments to make the audience believe them.

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