Rhetorical analysis: Survivor’s Guilt

In The Moral Logic of Survivors Guilt, philosopher Nancy Sherman examines survivors guilt through a moral and ethical lens, challenging common assumptions about responsibility, blame, and emotional reasoning. Rather than simply describing survivors guilt, Sherman constructs a complex argument about why this emotion exists and how it functions morally.

For this assignment, write a rhetorical analysis essay in which you examine how Sherman uses rhetorical strategies to develop her moral argument and persuade her audience.

Your essay should focus on Sherman makes her argumentnot whether you agree or disagree with her conclusions.

Identify the three main rhetorical appeals and examine at least one rhetorical strategy, such as:

Diction and tone

Imagery or figurative language

Repetition or parallelism

Organization or structure

Syntax or stylistic choices

Format: ML

ATimes New Roman, 12pt font, double spaced. Include a reference page at the end citing Shermans text.

make the first body paragraph about ethos, the second body paragraph about logos, and the 3rd body paragraph about pathos and diction/tone.

Talk about the story, state the thesis “Sherman uses a variety of rhetorical strategies to…”

Analyze the rhetorical strategies, use EVIDENCE please, and examples and explain the effect of the audience.

Summarize main points Restate the thesis and discuss the significance

make the paragraph about logos about actual statistics she says and about the philosophers she cites, also make the ethos paragraph, and pathos paragraph include the story about the commander that she talks about and make the rhetorical analysis a little shorter and make it more understandable, on a high school level

make it with pieces of evidence