My noodle

In Sir Ulrich’s letter to win back the love of Jocelyn, he uses different types of rhetoric to persuade her to take him back.  He is dealing with a woman, and every man knows that if you want to get back on the good side of a woman, you have to pull out the sweetest, cutest, most unmanly things you can think of in order to tug at her heart, so his letter is mainly pathos. He states, “I have seen the new moon, but not you. I have seen sunsets and sunrises, but nothing of your beautiful face.” He is saying he misses her, and complements her at the same time. He uses many metaphors to describe his emotions, which is smart because it is poetic, and poetry has a way of affecting emotions.  It is deep and heartfelt. He ends it with “Hope guides me…” which makes her know how important she is, and is a epic ending for an epic letter.  In the movie, Jocelyn is crying through the whole thing, which means his use of ethos was very effective.