Baldwin's Ethos Pathos Logos

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1- James Baldwins argument is that in order to justify the men were treated like they were animals, the white republic ha to brainwash them into believing that they were actually animals 2- one claim is that the society that we live is desperately menaced not by Khrushchev (Nikita) but from within (page123 line4-5). A society in depends on certain things which everyone within that society takes for granted. In some peculiar way, having created his myth about the "negroes" in the myth about his own mystery (page 127 line 15). I don't think anyone can doubt that in this country today we are menaced intolerably menaced by a lack of vision. 3- He uses ethos as evidence when he talks about the most influential figures in America (page 124 line

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