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 * 1) The purpose of the speech is to sway the jury to find his defendant not guilty. The defendant (Carl Lee Hailey) is on trial for killing the two white men who raped and beat his youngest daughter.
 * 2) The audience is the jury who are going to try and reach a verdict.
 * 3) Jake Tyler Brigance uses pathos to appeal to his audience. Jake Brigance uses vivid imagery to evoke the juries' emotions. At the end of his speech many of the courtroom occupants are left crying which suggest his emotional appeal worked.
 * 4) Jake Brigance's argument was extremely effective. Brigance uses an amotional appeal fallacy. Carl Hailey was emotionally distraught because of the horror of what happened to his daughter. The sheer sadness of what happened means Hailey is innocent.
 * 5) The argument could not have been strengthened. Using a logical appeal would have subtracted from the overwhelming emotional appeal and the argument would have been far less effective.