Another aspect of pathos was an appeal to patriotism. When he discussed American military personnel, “He starts talking about participating in attacks on U.S. troops in Iraq. He’s talking about building bombs” (Dillow 56). Of course, appealing to a reader’s patriotism, intense emotion is created. Creating pathos had a lasting impact on the
Almond effectively uses the appeal to pathos to prove his point. He helps persuade by using strong, emotional word choices and phrases such as “lovingly,” “passionately,” “part of me,” and “peaceful,” The variety of word choices gives the readers a better mental picture of what he is persuading. He also
Pathos is a technique that appeals to the reader's emotions and evokes feelings such as empathy, sorrow, and pity. The reader first notices this when the author acknowledges his broken home and child-like tendencies. Growing up, Perry's parents abused, neglected and abandoned him. Capote states, “Perry’s childhood experiences left him with deep emotional scars, he felt abandoned, rejected and worthless” (capote ). This evokes the reader's empathy for Smith's difficult upbringing, which may have contributed to his later actions.
Brady appeals to the reader’s emotions in her article why I want a wife by using pathos. She creates a connection between herself and the reader to make the reader feel what she is feeling and relate to her, which by definition is pathos. In Brady’s article “Why I Want a Wife” she develops a valid argument of why she wants a “wife” by using examples of pathos to connect with her female readers of the Ms. Magazine and draw their attention. This is a rather effective method when one considers that this article was written in the 1970’s when women’s rights acts was just starting to take place.
This causes people to feel welcomed and a part of the community. These feelings help bring in the intended and real audience by using the rhetorical strategy of appealing to pathos. To have pathos work, one must be able to appeal to the audience’s emotions. Jeannie Bird does this by making the customers feel welcomed and accepted in their bakery, as well as in Westminster. For the people who are not on Main Street every day but live close enough to the area, the feeling that they are a part of the community and can stay in touch with what is happening in the city is very appealing to them.
With this example, she starts with a common ground on a controversial issue, playing it up with a personal and emotional event, then cuts to a very factual counter argument that blows the first perspective out of the water. Biss’ timely delivery of information allows the reader to assume she is may be becoming slightly
Appealing to the reader’s emotions is often an exceptional way to persuade a person or group of people. This is widely prevalent in all of Traub’s article. For instance, in paragraph eight, Traub vividly describes one of his childhood memories that was centered around newspaper comic strips. By taking the time to share his personal life, the reader is able to build a personal connection to Traub and then begins to think of memories they have that involve old newspaper comics and are bombarded with feelings of nostalgia. Here, pathos is very useful in proving Traub’s claim because by the end of the article, the reader will be in complete agreement that newspaper comic strips are a treasure and will soon be a thing of the past.
Pathos emotionally connects with the reader. Outliers shows many examples, one would be the story of 12-year-old Marita living in a one-bedroom apartment with her mom. To reach her success “I wake up at five-forty-five a.m. to get a head start, I brush my teeth, shower. I get some breakfast at school, if I am running late…” (Gladwell, 264).
Even though the article is more of an informative piece, Rubenstein’s credibility, appeal to pathos, strong logos, and choice of design elements all illustrate the rhetorical effectiveness of the article. Pathos is a way of creating an emotional response from the audience, or an appeal to emotion. Rubenstein uses different techniques to get her audience to see how she views this ‘scandal’. She uses loaded words such as ‘predator’, ‘tyrant’, ‘scandal’, and ‘vulnerable’ to get her audience’s attention. Pictures of the different women that were assaulted and their stories were used to create sympathy.
Postal uses pathos heavily in her text to incite her audience’s emotions. However, even though the text seems to rely on pathos there are trace amounts of ethos and logos in her writing that should be discussed to explain why the writing would not prove to be an effective argument. Postal starts her writing with pathos in a statement with loaded words to spark a reaction in her audience. The exact text used is:
She uses descriptive words and employs all the senses hoping to make the reader feel as though they are actually there. Ethos, pathos and logos serve her as rhetorical appeals to make her sound logical, provoke emotions and to be credible. She also uses literary devices to make her statement enjoyable rather than being just informative. Her tone and voice serve the purpose of being persuasive and making the story sound interesting. She uses the first person to create the atmosphere of
Many individuals do not want to help or even realize what is going on in the world. He creates the argument on how some of these people are living in fear with nowhere to go in life. Mortenson hopes people can see through him and his beliefs to join others in helping change the world. Pathos is used throughout the book to emotionally involve the reader. Mortenson creates a despairing tone so the reader feels like they have better lives than others.
The novel Ordinary people be Guest, is about an adolescent boy who tries to commit suicide. Conrad is the novel's protagonist and all the time on the novel he tries to get back into normal life, after his brother died in a boating accident. The novel begins a month later, when Conrad came to the home after hospitalized. He starts to meet with a psychiatrist, Dr. Berger to help him get motivation for the life. Conrad's parents have different views on his healing, but despite various problems he starts to feel much better.
Throughout the article, the author illustrates her personal stories and utilizes multiple argument appeals to create a strong piece. By stating her personal stories, she provides personal credibility to display ethos. The readers trust and understand her authority. Pathos is also used to make the readers feel a certain way. For example, when she describes the tuna it causes the readers to feel the same disgust Kothari and her mother did.
His use of pathos and logos creates a perfect dynamic that brings his readers in by creating
