By reading this essay, we can see that Stephen King uses ethos as a strategy to persuade readers.
We can reach this conclusion because:
- Ethos is a rhetorical strategy that encourages readers' ethics.
- In this case, by using ethos in an essay, the author reinforces the idea of right and wrong within society. In addition to appealing to the authority, he or she represents.
- Stephen King is a renowned author. He is known for his horror books, which makes him an authority on the subject.
- In the essay, he reinforces the idea that children should not be spared from all the horror and violent movies and books.
- He claims that some of these movies and books should be banned from children when they present very controversial narratives.
- However, there are many of these works that should be allowed for children, since fairy tales present subjects as dark and frightening as some of these stories.
In this case, we can see that he reinforces the idea of what is right and wrong about the films that children have access to, in addition, he uses the authority he represents on the subject to give credibility to the text.
In this case, we can see the use of ethos.
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