slip past the scrutiny ofreaders and sway them toward particular responses. With astatement as powerful as that one how can a person not begin toponder on why these people are in jail and if the prisoners arereally at fault for their crimes. Through the use of tone Darrow triggers the mind intobelieving that the people that are on the outside are the onesthat create the havoc and those on the inside, the prisoners, are mere victims of their ruthlessness. If it were not for the factthat people on the outside are so grasping and heartless in theirdealings with the people on the inside, there would be no suchinstitution as jails (863). The words seem to creep into yourmind making one feel as though he is correct in what he issaying. It is as if one can hear the power and persuasiveness inhis voice speaking to the prisoners allowing one to have nochoice but to believe him.Darrow targets the emotional appeal in his closingparagraph, The only way to abolish crime and criminals is toabolish the big ones and the little ones together. Give men achance to live. Abolish the right of private ownership of land,abolish monopoly, make the world partners in production, partnersin the good things in life (872). With his style of using harshand abrupt sentences Darrow produces the feeling that if we wouldcreate an equality amongst us all that people would notexperience hardship, there would be no crime, hate andcompetition. The length of Darrows sentences seem to bring aboutdifferent attitudes and feelings. His shorter sentences seemblunt or terse, where his longer sentences, that delay closure,posses more of a dramatic effect.In addition to stimulating ones emotions, Darrow appeals tothe logical reasoning side of the audience: Whenever the standard Oil Company raises the price ofoil, I know that a certain number of girls who areseamstresses, and who work night after night long hoursfor somebody else, will be compelled to go out on thestreets and ply an...
