Frederick Douglass

The Book Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass Frederick Douglass used the elements of the Rhetorical Triangle, Logos, Pathos, and Ethos throughout the book. This was in the late 1800’s throughout the life of a slave in the book. There was a lot of Pathos which was emotion throughout the book and his life as a slave. Such as Logos, the logic part and Ethos, the personal experience and authority. First in the book Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, Frederick Douglass uses Pathos. Examples of Pathos would be, he hasn’t seen his mother since he was very little because they were separated when he was a baby and has never met and saw his father. “My father was a white man. He was admitted to be such by all I ever heard speak of my parentage. The opinion was also whispered that my master was my father; but of the correctness of this opinion, I know nothing; the means of knowing was withheld from me. My mother and I were separated when I was but an infant before I knew her as my mother,’ (Douglass, p.2).” How could someone separate a mother and their baby? That is just not right and it is wrong in so many ways. And Frederick’s mother died when he was close to seven years old, which is just a little boy. Another example would be when Frederick talked about Mr. Gore Killing Demby. Mr. Gore gave Demby three calls, and if he would not come out Mr. Gore would shoot him right in the head. So Demby did not get out of the water on the third call Mr. Gore gave him, so Mr. Gore shot him right in the head and killed him. Secondly, in the book Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglas, Frederick also used Ethos. Ethos would be the personal experience and authority. Some examples would be when Frederick kindly helping two Irish men and they found out that he was a slave and the sailors encourage him to run away to the North. Another would be During Douglass’s first several years in Baltimore, his old master, Captain Anthony, dies. So Frederick