Google is a search engine that holds the capabilities to provide us information within seconds. You can type in a simple word in the search engine and next a million articles and websites pop up giving you information regarding that word. In the world that we live in today, technology is steadily progressing each breath we take. It seems that every time that you turn on the T.V., there is a new type of phone that is faster than the one in your pocket or a new computer that is slimmer and sexier than the one you obtain. In the article “Is Google Making Us Stupid?”, author Nicholas Carr explains how the Internet is making people full of artificial knowledge. He explains in the second paragraph that it was easy for him to sit down and read a chapter out of a book with no problems, but now with the internet and how it is today, it is hard for him to get passed two or three pages without feeling a lack of concentration. He’s not totally against the Internet. Nicholas stated “The Web has been a godsend to me as a writer. Research that once required days in the stacks or periodical rooms of libraries can now be done in minutes. A few Google searches, some quick …show more content…
The author use the strategy of pathos to make the reader see his views the way that he once viewed them while you read. Carr uses this metaphor, giving an action to an object, on how he would have to “physically” bring himself back into the text that he was reading because he was so unfocused. Another example of the use of pathos in the article is how he said that he” once was a scuba diver in the sea of worlds. Now he zips along the surface like a guy on a jet ski.” (pg 54) He attempts to pull the reader in by using imagery on how into the book he was, now because of the internet, he just skims the information and doesn’t see the detail in writing like he used to reading