"Turn off the Television and Read" was written by Albert Hodapp. His main idea of this article is to encourage parents with kids that reading has a greater impact on children than television. He believes that reading at a young age benefits children's intelligently, physically, and sustainability significantly. He uses rhetorical devices to appeal the audience to the same feelings. Hodapp uses pathos, logos, and ethos as rhetorical devices to display that watching television affect children's behavior, education, and health.
In the author's writing, he uses pathos as one of his rhetorical devices to express that television affects kids' behavior. Hodapp wants to inform parents that kids' behavior is influenced violently by watching TV. He