Rhetorical Analysis for Bacon's Rebellion

Title: Sir William Berkeley and the Forging of Colonial Virginia

Author: Warren M. Billings

Audience: Anyone interested in learning about Colonial Virginia, Bacon's Rebellion, and William Berkeley.

Tone: The author's tone is informative because the book is full of information for the reader to learn and use for themselves in some way. There are dozens of interesting facts throughout the pages and this book was very useful.

Purpose: The purpose of this book was to inform the readers about Bacon's Rebellion and how Berkeley relates to everything that happened in Virginia throughout the Rebellion.

Ethos: This book is credible or believable because it has many facts that I have seen in multiple other documents. This shows that everyone knows the same details so they must be true facts. It is also very detailed and shows the readers many new things that weren't found in other documents.

Pathos: The emotion in this book was boring. The author didn't include stupid little phrases to make the reader laugh. He stayed serious with his writing because he probably wanted it to come across as a formal piece. It was also not very entertaining because it was just a lot of facts that were important to Bacon's Rebellion but not interesting to read about with no real emotion present in the writing.

Logos: This document gives support to how William Berkeley was a better man than Nathanial Bacon. It gives a lot of details and facts that prove that Berkeley wasn't the villain to the colonists and really in the end he helped Virginia.