In all my years at shawshank, there have been less than ten men whom i believed when they told me they were innocent. andy dufresne was one of them, although i only became convinced of his innocence over a period of years. if i had been on the jury that heard his case in portland superior court over six stormy weeks in 1947-48, i would have voted to convinct, too. source: king, stephen. "rita hayworth and shawshank redemption." different seasons. new york: penguin group, 1982. google books. web. 16 may 2011. how does the point of view in the excerpt affect the characterization in the text? characterization emphasizes action and dialogue through third-person point of view. characterization occurs through the point of view of an all-seeing narrator who interprets and makes judgments. characterization occurs through the potentially biased point of view of one character. the excerpt is lacking any definite point of view because the narrator is not identified.

It is much safer to be feared than loved, when, of the two, either must be dispensed with. . among the wonderful deeds of hannibal this one is enumerated: that having led an enormous army, composed of many various races of men, to fight in foreign lands, no dissensions arose either among them or against the prince, whether in his bad or in his good fortune. this arose from nothing else than his inhuman cruelty, which, with his boundless valour, made him revered and terrible in the sight of his soldiers, but without that cruelty, his other virtues were not sufficient to produce this effect. –the prince, niccolò machiavelli what kind of reasoning does machiavelli use in this excerpt? he uses inductive reasoning because he offers statistics to prove his claim. he uses inductive reasoning because he observes a pattern and proves a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he relies on scientific experiments to prove a conclusion. he uses deductive reasoning because he introduces a conclusion and proves it with evidence.