'Michael Moore Loves Rhetoric\r'

'Jeffrey Lee Professor Lewis English 2 10 February 2010 Michael Moore Loves Rhetoric One of the most legal focuss Moore draws our attention is by using reliable testimonies. By inter fiting Americans who rich person been wronged by the wellness attending system, he cleverly intertwines rhetoric to create a strong argument for usual wellness awe. For example, after(prenominal) he presents the audition with a logos allurement, an ethos and/or pathos appeal result follow, or frailty versa. Like a chain reaction, the appeals go moot in hand, do the viewer tang as if what they ar gossiping is real and not exaggerated.\r\nFrom the beginning, â€Å"Sicko” relies heavy on ethos and pathos to show that the health trouble pains is not sympathetic to the medical postulate of Americans. One example of this is the taradiddle of a valet named Tracy who had kidney cancer. His hospital refuse to perform surgery on him and Tracy died in brief after his wife challenged the hospital on the issue. Tracy’s wife, Julie, says that Tracy wanted to know why a entire person identical him had to be prep ar into such(prenominal) an unfortunate situation. Here, Moore uses unalike techniques to get the hearing to observe sympathy for this family.\r\nWhen the film first introduces us to Tracy and his family, we see segments of home videos depicting a happy family. As Tracy’s wife gives the interview, she tells an unfortunate storey of Tracy’s end and how their health insurance failed them which further grabs the interview’s sympathy. She is interviewed in such a way w here we feel as if she is in the living mode with us; she seems like a friend or neighbor, and we infer for her loss. We argon made to feel that his death was preventable.\r\nFurther, we learn that despite Tracy’s wife be employed in the genuinely hospital that provided them with alleged(prenominal) health care, they were denied treatment even thou gh Tracy’s brother was a perfect donor. Essentially, she was working for the very people who were denying her family the care they need. Through the use of ethos and pathos, Moore makes the earshot feel mournful for Tracy, while making the American health care system seem show up of touch with common ethical harbors. Tracy’s tale is followed by another ethos and pathos appeal told by Dawnelle Keyes, a woman whose daughter, Mychelle, died due to the low value that insurance companies lace on people’s lives. The hospital claimed that certain portions of Mychelle’s treatment could not be paid for by the hospital. In assign to cover these expenses, Keyes would have to take Mychelle to a different hospital. Keyes did not want to do this, and she recalls, â€Å"I fitting continued to ask them to treat her and they refused”. Finally, Keyes took her daughter to an leap hospital, but because of the delays, Mychelle went into cardiac arrest and died. After Keyes was make talking about her tragedy, she cried for her lost child. Just like the scene with Tracy’s widow, this scene prompted the interview to sympathize with the victims.\r\nAgain, this is a clever use of ethos and pathos. Moore to a fault chooses his reason wisely in order to appeal to the audition’s emotions even more. nonice when Keyes tells her tragic story of Mychelle, the interview takes place around a vacation spot with children playing in the background. This is an effective way of likeable to our pathos because we are reminded of children and their innocence. Keyes’ testimony further persuades the audience that insurance companies are merciless and should therefore be replaced by mandatory universal proposition health care.\r\nNot only does â€Å"Sicko” have many scenes of Americans describing the hardships that insurance companies have put them through, the movie also criticized the way health care workers are forced to work. For instance, Becky Malke works for an insurance lodge and describes the distress she experiences at her job. Becky answers phone calls for the company and tells the story of one phone call that grim her. Becky cries through most of her story. As she cries, Moore slowly zooms the photographic camera onto her face, allowing us to see all her emotions, almost making the audience want to cry with her.\r\nThis is a colossal technique for the film’s message here †that even those who work for the health care industry are emotionally distraught by how uncharitable and inhumane medical insurance companies can be. We are left to feel that the afoot(predicate) system should be overthrown in favor of universal health care. hitherto again, Moore strengthens his argument through the use of personal testimonies that lecture our emotions. As the film progresses we see Moore display himself as the â€Å"common man” in an effort to appeal to the audience the genuineness of his own character †his ethos.\r\nHe is casually garbed wearing only jeans, T-shirt, and a baseball cap. His message is more acceptable to the audience when he is perceived as an everyday sheath of guy. The audience’s guards are down. Where if he was dressed in a suit, the audience would surely view him differently, possibly feeling more distant and requiring Moore to make up his viewpoints. Instead, Moore’s stories are believable because he makes the audience relate with him and his storytellers. Another form of pathos used in â€Å"Sicko” is the association of happiness with universal health care.\r\nFor instance, Alexi Cremieux was recovering from chemotherapy that treated his tumor. Because Alexi lived in France, where there is universal health care, Alexi was given three months of paid vacation time to get well. Moore flashes images of Alexi relaxing with friends during his vacation, smiling in all his pictures. Through pathos, we are made to swea r that Alexi is happier because he was assisted by universal health care. In turn, we too are left to feel that universal health care can function achieve our happiness, versus the U. S. counterpart that can only put people through hardship.\r\nFurthermore, Moore also uses humor as a form of a pathos appeal. For example, Moore visits a British hospital, which is managed under a universal health care system, and tries to find out how the hospital’s patients pay the bills for their preventive. Moore asks a pregnant patient at the hospital, â€Å"So what do you pay for a stay here? ” She replies, â€Å"No one pays” with a chuckle. Next, Moore asks a couple walking through the hospital with their immature baby, â€Å"What did they charge for that baby? ” The baby’s don answers, â€Å"You know, it’s not America” and the couple laughs. This is a powerful scene because it mocks the U.\r\nS. system in an ludicrous fashion. It makes the v iewer think â€Å"hey those people don’t have to pay for health care, why should we? ” Their slapstick attitude towards the idea of paying for health care makes the viewer believe that the current system is absurd and that the U. S. should adopt universal health care. Lastly, the music Moore uses also ties into the humorous appeal. He emphasizes an issue by attach to it with a soundtrack. If it is a humorous scene, he will use sarcastic, over the top sounds; if he wants to wound the audience, he plays something more melodramatic.\r\nFor example, while telling the story of a woman who was eligible for health coverage but was later denied because of a mere barm infection, when the film got to the yeast infection part, it was followed with a â€Å"buh buh laughingstock” and a crow screeching. The use of these sounds dramatizes the ridiculous circumstance that this woman was (and should not have been) denied over a simple yeast infection. Through the use of severally rhetoric appeal, ethos, pathos and logos, Moore effectively convinces the audience that universal health care is more charitable than the current U.\r\nS. system and should therefore be replaced. He presents us with real-life people who the audience can easily key with. The unjust manner in which these people are treated causes us to sympathize for them. And the facts given to us appear to be supported and convincing. All three appeals are blended together in a way that conveys a powerful message to those watch it. After watching â€Å"Sicko”, it is hard not to be convinced that universal health care is essential. With that said, are you convinced?\r\n'