"To Kill a Mockingbird" and "A Lesson before Dying " through logos, pathos, and ethos (appeals to logic, emotion, and credibility).

There is always more than one way to go about solving any given problem. The closing statements of Atticus Finch in To Kill a Mockingbird and another attorney in A Lesson before Dying differ in many respects as to how they go about arguing for the same purpose: the acquittal of their defendants. In the end, Atticus Finch's argument is, objectively, more persuasive. Unlike the other attorney, Atticus draws on logic to support his defendant's …

…that a court is only as good as its jury holds true to the effect that a white jury, while deciding the fate of a black person charged with an act of violence against a white, might allow their emotions to supersede what they know logically is right. This suggests that not only is all truth in the eye of the beholder, but that truth itself in many different forms and levels in every consciousness.