Albert Einstein 6

In Albert Einstein’s letter to Phyllis as to whether or not scientists pray, Einstein uses effectively rhetorical language by focusing on the subject, speaker, and audience, as well as appeals to get his point across. At the end of the paper, it seems that Einstein himself never answers Phyllis’s question deffinately, never really leaning either way, but by using rhetorical writing he doesn’t really have to. As the name mike suggest, it’s simply rhetorical. Einstein’s use of subject, speaker and audience help show his focus in his letter. In the use of subject, Einstein stays clearly and firmly on the subject of whether or not scientists pray. He also realizes that being the speaker, he cannot truly or firmly vouch for all scientists and vies for an indirect answer, which he uses throughout. The audience is Phyllis, a 6th grade student and possibly his class, so Einstein needs to keep his answer simple, which (if you only read the ending) he does. In the end leaves his answer more to Phyllis than himself. Einstein uses the appeals of ethos, logos and pathos to connect feels with his answer. In his use of ethos, Einstein puts at the end, “I hope this answers your question,” showing that he cares about the question, showing he perhaps, is trying to appeal to Phyllis’s situation. Clear rationality on Einstein’s part shows use of logos. For example, Einstein writes, “All the same this faith has been largely justified so by the success of scientific research,” suggesting that there is a link that can be explain or that they’re simply the same thing. Pathos are throughout Einstein’s letter, such as, supernatural, faith, and superior, these are positive connotations, giving the letter just the right emotion on the audiences behalf. Einstein knew how to use appeal in his letters. Einstein may have truly left the question unanswered but with his use of subject, speaker, audience and appeals effectively to create an affective rhetorically