Persuasiveness

Letter From Birmingham Jail
By Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK)

Why Animal Rights?
By PETA
http://www.peta.org/about/WhyAnimalRights.asp

Both the letter by Martin Luther and the article by PETA used pathos, logos and ethos. In MLK’s letter, it was harder to distinguish which was being used. MLK is a very persuasive writer. He does not seem to use one more than another unlike the article by PETA in which pathos seems to predominate. PETA tries to make the reader feel sorry for animals being used for food, fur, ect. PETA also tries to use Ethos by making the people they use in the article seem credible. The article by PETA is not as persuasive as the letter by MLK because they do not back up their argument with much logic. The only part in the article that seems to use logos is the end when they talk about an animal’s ability to feel pain.