Logos Pathos and Ethos

Although both texts talk about love, I believe the authors’ way of communicating with their audience is different from each other. Yann Dall’Aglio uses the strategy of logos most of all throughout his speech. He uses knowledge he has such as the root meaning of words, his personal experience, and being more factual than anything else. Yann talks about love as if it’s a formula which has been changed due to rationalization of scientific research, political democratization, and rationalization of economic production and of trade liberalization. He’s appealing to the logic of people while convincing them that love can be done by simply acknowledging we are all useless. Toni Morrison on the other hand communicates more through the ethos strategy. He lets us know how he felt when he met this stranger. He continues to tell us that he was bewildered, and later feeling betrayed, and disappointment. His comparison of other people to hell is rather dramatic. The thought of hell usually causes fear which is exactly what he was trying to cause by saying, “other people.” Morrison’s text not only talks about his own emotion but about other’s as well. By trying to cause us to feel anything reading his work, means he was strategically communicating to his audience through ethos.