Rhetorical Analysis John Grisham uses personal experience and cause and effect strategies for emotional appeals or also known as pathos to show the audience how movies greatly influence people and their decisions. Rather than being on the news or telling a friend about a murder, you feel sympathy for the dead person and the victim's family. There's only so much you can feel about murder, just because you either don't know the victim or you don't know all the details of what happened when you hear about the person and who they were before they died, you start to connect, just like a character in a book that you slowly develop in your mind. “I didn't know much about him then, only that he was soft-spoken, extremely polite, always ready with a smile and a warm greeting.”( 1) Grisham provides Bill Savage's background, just to give readers an idea of ​​who was Bill Savage, a good person he sympathized with. Grisham wrote that statement to get readers' attention. He didn't just mean that Bill Savage was a good guy, because that statement is too clear. It adds more background than information for a reason. This reason was to show that Bill Savage was a wonderful person and to make the reader feel sympathetic for what happened and to make you want the killer to serve his punishment. “Bill Savage was not the kind of person who created hostility or maintained enemies.”(1). Everyone has an enemy, that's why Grisham says "hold." From this quote I take that once people got to know Savage they became friends with him. Grisham is saying this to show the reader that Bill could not have been killed by people he knows. “The inhabitants of Hernado were amazed”(1). Everyone likes him or Grisham wouldn't have said it that way. Bill was killed by a complete stranger. “He was active in local affairs, a devout Christian, and a solid citizen who believed in public service and was always willing to volunteer” (1). Ben had no rhyme or reason to kill Bill because Grisham demonstrates that Bill has no character traits to have enemies, so the murder was committed in cold blood. All these quotes which are background information and personal experience strategies are given so that the reader has an idea of ​​who Bill was and who Ben was, a way to show how effective background information is for a reader.