Question

In "All Together Now," Jordan uses appeals to emotion and appeals to reason to try to persuade her

Answer 1

In her essay, Jordan uses appeals to emotion and reason to try to persuade her readers that her views are important. She tries to touch feelings when she writes "What we need now is soul force—the efforts of people working on a small scale to build a truly tolerant, harmonious society. And parents can do a great deal to create that tolerant society".  

And she makes you reason when she writes "When I look at race relations today I can see that some positive changes have come about. But much remains to be done, and the answer does not lie in more legislation. We have the legislation we need: we have the laws".

I find Jordan´s appeals convincing. Teaching tolerance is not something that laws can do, tolerance is learned at home, in a family, especially when parents teach you respect to people, no matter what skin color they have.  This is the ground upon which a civilized society should be built.

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