An Analysis Of Logos In 'Altar Call To True Believers'

Reputable environmentalist Janisse Ray in her narrative “Altar Call to True Believers” uses pathos, logos, and ethos efficiently to create a convincing kyros for her essay. To start off she uses ethos. She admits her own faults, capturing the reader’s attention as well as “playing” upon the readers trust and understanding. Next she uses pathos. Ms. Ray identifies with her audience and displays her own background to gain more of the reader’s empathy. Lastly, she capitalizes on logos. Janisse logically forges an ideological circumstance for what, how, and why the people of planet earth should be doing to help the environment. In this essay I will argue that Ray’s rhetoric succeeds due to the empathy she establishes with her audience by self depreciation. Ray begins her composition by immediately identifying herself with the reader. Many of the people reading her piece are environmentalists or environmental activists. She refers to these environmentally thoughtful people as “the choir”. She defines “the choir” as “the already converted, the dedicated, the environmentalists” Altar Call to True

The woman’s name is Susana Lein. After living in Guatamala for quite a few years as well as working on the point of landscape architecture during the 1980’s, she is now head of a farm in Kentucky called Salamander Springs. Lein is currently living a lifestyle that quite appropriately defines “living off the land”. Susana Lein truly is the epitome of how we humans need to start living, at least to a certain extent. While most of the world’s population, including preservationists, are creating their own waste and emitting green house gasses in direct neglect of their mission. Again, the authors use of logos is crisp and mostly to the point, but the only reason it succeeds, nay, the only reason the audience was able to stay tuned for this many verses is because of the ethos used at the