I am writing to you to share my thoughts and opinions on the recent campaign held on the island. The ongoing battle between Jack and Ralph for leadership on the island has grown more and more. Fear of having a civil war on the island is starting to rise, and a decision must be made quickly before savageness takes over. After the tense campaign Tuesday, one group truly reigned supreme. Ralph and Piggy had a more effective debate due to their use of tone and pathos.
When presenting their essays to the group, every leader brought with them a different tone that impacted its effectiveness on the audience. In Ralph's speech, he sticks with an assertive tone and states everything that will get done on the island. Ralph states that…show more content… As seen on the website, social media ads, and speeches, the use of emotion within Ralph and Piggy’s debate was undeniably effective. In his speech, Ralph says “...Piggy, I apologize for how awful I have been towards you, but now that all has changed” which is a form of emotion that ties to the leadership. By seeing the vulnerable side of the leaders, their effect on sincerity and emotion is greatened. The website also uses pathos when talking about Ralph and Piggy’s upbringing. The Ralph bio page shares that he came from a “...modest past” while the Piggy bio page shares his struggles with bullying and the empathy he feels for others being bullied. By embedding Pathos into both the speeches and the website, the emotionally driven responses would lean more towards Ralph and Piggy’s…show more content… Jack and Rodger used anaphora in their argument a lot with words like “I believe” and “unlike some”. This in turn built a togetherness amongst the boys of the island and gave power to the words being spoken. Emphasizing words multiple times makes them seem more important than words only brought up once. However, this unity is then divided when they continuously bash the competition. When Rodger calls Piggy a “...bloated, bug eyed, blubbering blob of incompetence, a gelatinous glob of gutless gibberish, a quivering, qualling, quintessence of quitterdom”, all respect for the words mentioned previously is gone. The overall tone of their text is very childish, with no respect for peers or other opinions. By bashing the competition, the effectiveness of the Jack and Rodgers campaign
