In the essay “Pathography”, by Robert Maunder, I believe that Robert does a good job on providing the main argument. The main argument is about pathography which focuses on the negative parts of a subject. In this case, the negative parts in the article are emotional, how to stay stable after experiencing rough patches and also metaphors for helping the sick people know it’s not as bad as it seems. In other words, Robert Maunder has done a good job on the main argument which is right in the title on Pathography which is explained throughout the essay that he has written.
To begin with, Robert Maunder had a lot of emotion throughout his essay on Pathography. In the text, Robert explains that he had no idea what people go through until he started a job to work with psychiatric residents to help with their illness. Illnesses like “death and dying, dealing with doctors, sex and matters of the flesh, loss, monotony and fatigue, pain, aloneness, uncertainty, meaning, and self-pity” (Maunder, p.270) helped Robert realize that there is more to this world then happy people. Robert Maunder gives examples in his essay saying: “The best pathographies, like the best novels and poems, I suppose, describe life with subtlety, contradiction, emotion, depth, beauty, and banality.” (Maunder, p.270). These examples help the sick realize that there is more to them than they think there is by realizing that they aren’t the only humans who are feeling the same way and there is a way
Eric G. Wilson was born in 1967, and attended Appalachian State University, Wake Forest University, and the City University of New York where he gained a Ph.D. Wilson is currently a professor at Wake Forest University who teaches courses on British and American Romanticism. He has written many books, and “The Miracle of Melancholia” was published in the Los Angeles Times. I have never really thought too much about the effects that sadness can have on people, especially the positive effects. After reading the first paragraph of this piece, I was a little skeptical but as I continued to read, the author’s argument further developed and I now agree that sadness can have positive effects.
At the climax, the rhetorician concludes, ”I’ve noticed a significant decrease in pain and can now walk comfortably“(The Onion). By connecting the success of one case, the audience feels affixed through conclusive evidence in spite of humorous detail. Pathos contaminates devotees by providing a connectable experience to persuade their motives. The rhetorical effect of pathos connects the emotions of the audience to the
Pathos is the written art of persuasion that is used to invoke emotion, and action in an audience. The CDC effectively pulls the emotions out of its audience with the picture of innocent little children displayed with a very troublesome disorder (ADHD, 2013). The author reaches within, to invoke the audience into action. Invoking emotions such as pity, sympathy, sadness, and even anger, which are certain to get people to set up and take notice. These photos of the children effectively use emotions to show how the disorder of ADHD works. There is one photo that speaks the loudest of the disorder of ADHD. That photo shows the distraught look of a child, as his parents are talking with the doctor (ADHD, 2013). The CDC very effectively caught the scene with its camera lens, capturing that distraught look in the child’s eyes, helping the audience see the actions of ADHD. The smile on the face of the parents and the doctor, will bring the audience into a sense of comfort and hope, pertaining to the
uses pathos throughout his essay to appeal to his audience's emotional side and their sympathy
The effective use of pathos is the crowning jewel used throughout Quindlen's article. The emotion portrayed in each testimony gives light and drives the forces of the lasting effects of death and grief. Mrs. Quindlen's specific examples and hard hitting emotional ties of her own experiences delivers a fatal blow to the heart strings of the reader. Quindlen conveys, "My great journalistic contribution to my family is that I write obituaries. First my mother's, 22 years ago, listing her accomplishments: two daughters, three sons. Then that of my father's second wife, dead of the same disease that killed his first one." There is more than meets the eye with his statement, carried throughout the article.
example of pathos because it plays with peoples emotions and they can more relate to this and
Schrobsdorff starts the article off with a story, about a woman, Faith-Ann, who started to cut herself in the eighth grade. she using pathos to try to make the audience feel sympathy and to express the significance of her topic. She expresses how Faith-Ann feels when she would cut, saying, “it was a sense of deep relief” for her, then using a direct quote from Faith. She also talked about what Faith would escape from when she would cut herself and how it would affect Faiths daily life, ending the paragraph with another direct quote from Faith. She uses the direct quotes as ethos to give credit and show that what she said about faith was true. she goes back to pathos stating that faith didn’t tell her parents until three years later because she felt her pain and sadness couldn’t be explained or justified. That she loved her
First let’s talk about how Sherman Alexie uses pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions. In his writing when he is using this technique he says, “I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” (Alexie). This quote is successful because his word choice is helping to make the reader feel emotionally attached to the reasoning behind why he is doing what he is doing. Also, he says towards the end of his writing, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” (Alexie) He does a good job with his word choice in these short sentences. It makes the reader engaged in the writing because he is being assertive, and he knows what he wants. Which what he wants is the reader to understand his point that something needed to be done and he was going to be the one to do it. Both of these quotes that I have pulled from his text reaches the readers on an emotional level because he makes it seem that knowing how to read saved his life and now that he knows how to read and
Ray Bradbury used pathos quite a bit. It appeared right from the start, as one night Guy Montag comes home to Mildred, his wife, overdosed on sleeping pills. He calls EMS and they come to pump her stomach. In the morning she wakes up and acts like nothing even happened. Guy tries to bring her to reality and make her realize what she did the night before. All she wants to do is pretend it didn’t happen. Mildred tried to kill herself and all she wants is for it to not have happened. She seems so heartless to leave her husband and not even care enough to explain herself. Ray Bradbury did this to show just how oblivious society had become. He wanted to show how silly it all was.
In the next passage, we talk about how he is feeling emotionally. Through this expedition, he goes through a rough time with getting his energy up and not giving up, the challenging part is trying to stay with the team. Throughout his expedition, he is having to take care of his teammates and he wouldn’t take care of them for no reason, there was always a reason to take care of people around him.. He says “I felt disconnected from the climbers around me emotionally, spiritually, physically- to a degree I had not experiences on any previous expedition… yet I would do everything in my power to keep pushing on if he turned around” (284), this is an example of pathos because he uses his heart to express his feeling about his connections with his teammates.
By using abstract words to describe these long-suffering patients, Mayes’ forces dramatic images into the reader’s mind.
Pathos is the easiest rhetoric to use when persuading a reader because it is turning the reader`s emotion against the reader. Both the letter and the memoir can recall specific details, some of the most terrifying to remember. Wiesel says, “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me,” (115). Night causes a
The application of pathos allowed the reader to have sympathy for Stephon Clark’s family, this is first manifested in the title, which prompts a response to the reader to get them interested in the topic. Before the article, a video played which highlighted the events with a slideshow of different pictures and
Mr. Berger uses Pathos close to the beginning of his essay to get the attention of his audience. To get an emotion started that would make anyone want to know and read further. Where he writes “In this respect, images are more precise and richer than literature.” (121) For anyone who may be passionate about literature may disagree, it would cause an emotion. An emotion that would cause someone to want a better understanding. He is using this strategy to get the audience interested, engaged, and to be able to have an emotional tie to the subject. He explains how images have been around to make up for what was absent. Words are words and mean what we read from them. Anyone can read a book explaining how life was in the past, and an image can give a different story.
Analyzing and interpreting poetry takes time and effort due to the variety of elements each poem may possess as well as understanding those elements chosen and used in the piece of work. In addition, one’s life experiences may influence how one perceives the poem. However, in the poem “Alzheimer’s” by Kelly Cherry, published in 1997 and written during a time of personal struggle for Cherry and her dad, a couple of poetic elements appear more prominent than any others. These are the tone and imagery. Cherry begins the poem with a feeling of insensitivity but by the end transforms the feeling in to one of pity or sadness. Through her careful choice of words and use of similes and metaphors Cherry establishes the tone and imagery throughout the poem in a realistic way regarding this disease and its tug on the emotions one feels when caring for someone with this illness.