Rhetorical AnalysisJohn Grisham uses his personal experience and cause and effect strategies for emotional appeals or also known as pathos to show the audience how films greatly influence people and their decisions. Rather on the news or a friend telling you about a murder, you feel sympathy towards the deceased person and the victim's family. There are only so many things you can feel about murder, just because you don't know the victim or know all the details of what happened. When you hear about the person and who they were before they died, you begin to connect. , just like a character in a book that you slowly develop in your mind. “I didn't know much about him at the time, just that he was soft-spoken, extremely polite, always ready to smile and greet warmly. » (1) Grisham gives the background of Bill Savage, purely to give readers an idea of ​​who Bill Savage was a likeable person that you sympathize with. Grisham wrote this statement to attract readers' attention. He didn't just mean that Bill Savage was a good guy, because the statement was too simple. It adds more context than information for a reason. This reason was to show that Bill Savage was a wonderful person and to make the reader sympathetic to what had happened and to make them want the murderer to serve time. “Bill Savage was not the type of person to create ill will or maintain enemies.”(1). Everyone has an enemy, which is why Grisham says “maintain.” I infer from this quote that once people knew Savage, they became friends with him Grisham says this to show the reader that Bill could not have been killed by people he knows. Hernado were stunned” (1). He is well-liked by everyone, otherwise Grisham would not have said it that way. Bill was killed by a complete stranger. “He was active in local affairs, a devoted Christian and. a solid citizen who believed in public service and was always willing to volunteer” (1). Ben had no reason to murder Bill because Grisham demonstrates how Bill has no character traits to have enemies, so the murder was committed in cold blood All these quotes which are background information and personal experience strategy are given so that the reader has an idea of ​​who Bill was and who Ben was. A way to show how effective general information is for a reader..