Rhetorical Analysis: Everyone Needs A Place To Call Home

“Home is the starting place of love, hopes and dreams ”, is a quote many people are familiar with and can relate to. In the article “Everyone Needs a Place to Call Home”, Gerardo Roman uses ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade his audience that Americans benefit from affordable homes and lawmakers should prioritize helping the current housing crisis. One of the three important techniques Gerardo Roman uses is Ethos. Throughout the text, Roman not only gives accurate information but gives them from trustworthy sources including himself. In the text the author states, “I work as an outreach worker providing services to help the housing insecure” By saying this the author lets the audience know that he can be trusted when it comes to things like

One might already recognize that people not having a place to call home is sad, but the way Gerardo Roman specifically evokes readers' emotion in this article can make one feel melancholic and disconsolate. In the text the author starts out the article by saying, “Our fondest memories, loving relationships and reprieve from the outside world occur inside our homes thus making it the foundational structure that encapsulates health and prosperity.” Then A few paragraphs later it states, “In addition to facing hardship, many Americans are facing food hardships…An additional one in five children live in a household that does not have enough to eat.” The focus of this single technique of ethos is Roman’s word choices. In the beginning he evokes the emotion of heart warmth and love because when one thinks about home and happy memories that is something a lot of people feel. He uses positive words like “health and prosperity” to get readers that can relate to really feel a sense of mellowness and gratefulness. Then as the reading went on there was a shift in the tone of the text. He mentions children starving and not having enough to eat. His mention of children really is what draws the reader's in because many people see children as innocent and to know and see them starving, really pulls on peoples’ heart strings. There was such a huge shift going from love and heart warmth to child starvation. It is safe to feel a sense of