Rough Draft for Ethical Analysis

The Peace (Keepers) Prize is written by Thomas L. Friedman who is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner for The New York Times. This article is a typical example, which can be used to demonstrate how a rhetor successfully appeals to his audience through the establishment of credibility. It is related to an endless argument since the winner of the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize has been announced by the Nobel Committee on a particular day-Barrack Obama, who is the incumbent president of the United States. Unlike many other major media is debating on whether President Obama is deserve to the glory, Friedman redefines the significance of the peace prize by taking the advantage of the event to state his points of view on it. Apparently, the peace prize is no longer for personal since the title has been modified by the author, which is straight forward expressing the peace of the world is come from the peace keepers- the men and women of the U.S. military. The article is fairly challenging to appeal those readers in America or from any other places all over the world who have a different ideology on overseas policies of the United States. It successfully convinces readers, though, that Friedman combines the character he creates with the facts he enumerates in detail.

Both the invented ethos and the situated ethos are playing important roles in the text. Actually, Friedman relies on invented ethos more than situated ethos. The article is mainly making up of speech, which will be given by President Obama in the peace prize ceremony on the upcoming Dec.10. He puts it in a prior position so that the role of the speech is important enough to draw readers’ attention, and focus on the content of every piece of it. The article is so interesting that the speech has not actually happened. All the points of view in which are the author’s rather than President Obama. For whatever reasons Friedman assumes or supposes it is better off for President Obama if he gives the speech in the ceremony in the way Friedman designs. He needs to borrow President Obama to deliver his idea and information to the whole world.

Friedman relies on invented ethos because the President Obama is the character he constructs within his discourse. The peace prize is global and personal prize, which represents the most ultimate glory for a leadership of a country or any other organization. However, Friedman insists the prize will be devalued if everyone considers the significance of the prize in this way. The peace is not originally existed all over the world within his article. Actually, the peace of the world is come from the peace keepers-the men and women of the U.S. military. Friedman not only challenges the audiences in America, but also he has to face the entire audiences all over the world. President Obama is a proper character for Friedman to deliver his opinion to those people he does not know.