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Pathos: An appeal to the audience’s emotions
Logos: The logical appeal or the simulation of it
Ethos: An appeal to the authority or honesty of the speak
2. Samwise Gamgee's speech to Frodo:
I know. It's all wrong. By rights we shouldn't even be here. But we are. It's like in the great stories, Mr. Frodo. The ones that really mattered. Full of darkness and danger, they were. And sometimes you didn't want to know the end. Because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened? But in the end, it's only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. Those were the stories that stayed with you. That meant something, even if you were too small to understand why. But I think, Mr. Frodo, I do understand. I know now. Folk in those stories had lots of chances of turning back, only they didn't. They kept going. Because they were holding on to something.
I think that this speech is Pathos because he is trying to get Frodo to remember the stories that really mattered. These stories talked of happiness, joy and peace. The world that these Hobbits grew up in. This is toying with Frodo's emotions, he is trying to put hope and happiness back into Frodo's thoughts after having it very hard for a long time. After being very down and upset this speech brings Frodo to his knees and he is ready for what is yet to come... this is why I think it is a Pathos speech.
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