Get Girls Into School Ethos Pathos Logos

The world is full of problems, but an issue that I have chosen to shed some light on is the education in Burkina Faso or rather the lack of education for females in Burkina Faso. Burkina Faso is a country with very low literacy rates and just does not have a very good education system. The education system is charging large amounts of money to the very poor families who barely have enough money to keep all of their family living. In the article, “It’s Not Just About the Boys. Get Girls into School,” written by Jonathan Alter and published on Newsweek he focuses on spreading awareness about all the reasons in which certain children in Burkina Faso are not getting the proper education if they are getting any education at all. In the article,

Pathos is all about emotion which generally pulls in readers to continue reading and learning about the issues. With the logos and ethos that go throughout the article, they both really contribute to the pathos in a way. Bringing more attention to different strengths of pathos or emotion. A section where pathos is really seen is in the fifth paragraph of the article. Stating, “They’re often uncomfortable when their girls have to travel long distances to school (making them more subject to sexual predators)” (Alter, para 5). This is pathos because sexual predators do not only stay in Burkina Faso, but they are all over the world, in every country, province, state, city, town, village, county. It is a fear that everyone can face because it is everywhere and it is something that happens everywhere. Therefore, bringing out emotion through fear and being considered pathos.
The article, written by Jonathan Alter, “It’s Not Just About the Boys. Get Girls into School,” expresses all three aspects of what can make this source, a great source. Overall, the article by Jonathan Alter is really the better source with it expressing more than one examples of ethos, logos, and