Identifying Rhetorical Strategies in The Moon is Down
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The Moon is Down by John Steinbeck
Lesson Plans by Kristy Littlehale
This novel, which won the Nobel Prize for literature, is helpful in generating English class extension lessons on propaganda, resistance movements, and World War II.
Storyboard Description
The Moon is Down Rhetorical Strategies ethos, pathos, logos
Storyboard Text
- ETHOS (ETHICS / CREDIBILITY)
- Example 1
- ORDE
- ORDEN
- X
- ORDEN
- X
- Example 2
- LOGOS (LOGIC)
- “They elected me not to be confused. Six town boys were murdered this morning. I think we will have no hunt breakfast. The people do not fight wars for sport.” – Mayor Orden
- “In all the world, yours is the only government and people with a record of defeat after defeat for centuries and every time because you did not understand people.” – Mayor Orden
- “This principle does not work. First, I am the Mayor. I have no right to pass sentence of death. There is no one in this community with that right. If I should do it, I would be breaking the law as much as you.” – Mayor Orden
- “...but we are a free people; we have as many heads as we have people, and in a time of need leaders pop up among us like mushrooms.” – Doctor Winter
- PATHOS (EMOTIONS)
- “Alex, go, knowing that these men will have no rest, no rest at all until they are gone, or dead. You will make the people one.” – Mayor Orden
- “The people don’t like to be conquered, sir, and so they will not be. Free man cannot start a war, but once it is started, they can fight on in defeat. Herd men, followers of a leader, cannot do that, and so it is always the herd men who win battles and the free men who win wars.” – Mayor Orden
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