Conversation With My Mother Pathos

In the book, Gaby Rodriguez uses pathos to get the reader's attention. In the book Rodriguez stated, “ We don’t win this battle by finger pointing and gossiping. We win by education, talking and lifting each other up. We win it by being decent to one another.” (Rodriguez 127). Rodriguez showed emotion to link back to show readers their own inner strength. The quote states that life is not about how others are, but if you respect others and make appropriate comments that will make people happy and lift them up. The strategy used is emotion. Emotions come in by the emotions Rodriguez faced during her fake pregnancy. During her time of being “pregnant”, Rodriguez faced a lot of bullying, but she always stayed strong, and knew her own inner strength. Another emotion was also used in “The Pregnancy Project”. According to Rodriguez, “No one had ever presented their boards speech in front of the whole school before, but the teacher thought it could impact someone's life” (Rodriguez 148). Rodriguez showed the readers that a presentation or an experiment that a person makes, can help someone feel like they are important, and for them to feel their own inner strength. The strategy she used is pathos. Pathos is shown by having stories of your own and telling someone about their process and how it impacted their lives, and

In the “the Jungle” the author Upton Sinclair uses ethos,pathos and imagery to expose the meat packing industry of its disgusting ways to the public’s eye. The first pathos the rhetorical device responsible for getting people into their feeling more than in their thoughtful minds. For example Mr. Sinclair takes full advantage of this when explains the meat packing plant products are not what you think they are. In this quote “there would be meat that had tumbled out on the floor, in the dirt and sawdust, where workers had tramped and spit uncounted billions of consumption germs.”

I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.

Pathos is used in order to link the essay with the reader’s emotions and ethos is used to show the writers moral character. For example, pathos is used when Kozol speaks to a student of a Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel?...I think they’d be relieved.” (Kozol 205) This part of the essay really made me feel sad for this girl who lives in a society where she has grown up feeling like now one cares about her or others of her race.

But there are times the author used pathos to make the audience realize what they have become, and what they are missing out on. One example of this was when Carr used a quote from an interview: “When culture drives changes in the way that we engage our brains, it creates DIFFERENT brains. THEIR HEAVY USE HAS NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES.” When Carr uses all caps, it implies to the audience that this is something they should pay attention to because it is important. It also installs fear in the reader, because something that we do every day such as going on our phones could have actual neurological consequences. Another use of pathos was when Carr stated the aim of Google. “To get users in and out quickly…” Carr goes on to explain that “As people spend more time and do more things online, they see more ads, and they disclose this information about themselves…and Google rakes in more money”. These understated comments grant the audience to consider and be more mindful of what they are doing. The author incorporates in some awkward moments when he talks about artificial intelligence. The creator of Google is quoted saying “the ultimate search engine is something as smart as people or more intelligent. Certainly if you had… an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.” Carr makes a comment about how unsettling it is to think about our minds being supplemented with artificial intelligence. This appeals to pathos because the audience has a firm impulse to agree with Carr because it is uncomfortable to think about a computer replacing our

Pathos is an appeal to the emotion of an audience (Gross & Walzer, 2000). Through the use of compositional techniques, such as simile and metaphor, or even tone, the speaker attempts to solicited an emotional reaction from the audience. In the case of Keith’s pro-vaccination argument, in one paragraph there is a visual form of pathos utilized. In boldfaced type Keith states,“Vaccines are different from every other parenting issue in that the choices that parents make affect everyone else as well. Vaccines are everyone's business” (para. 12).

Pathos Pathos is one of the three types of methods that can be used when trying to pursue someone. Pathos is a Greek word that means suffering or experience. Pathos is when emotions are used as a method to pursued your audience in a presentation or argument. There are different techniques to use if you wanted to pathos into your argument.

Within The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls uses the rhetorical device pathos to help connect with her readers and make it so they can better comprehend her story and the difficulties she often had to deal with. “Mom said Dad was never the same after Mary Charlene died. He started having dark moods, staying out late and coming home drunk and losing jobs (Walls,28)”. This passage is a prime example of pathos seeing

Pathos consists in arousing the emotions of the listeners and directing those emotions in an action that should be taken. In order to use pathos in my speech, I could reference personal experiences. For example if I were having a conversation with someone who just lost a family member, I could make a connection with them by telling them about a similar loss in my

While Colombian immigrants are relative newcomers immigrating to the United States, their figures began to increase greatly during the last few decades. “By 2008, Colombians were the largest South American immigrant group in the United States, accounting for nearly thirty percent of all South Americans in the country” (Murnan). Like many of the other Latin American countries, Colombia’s political instability has played the biggest role in motivating people to leave the country and immigrate to the United States in search of a better and safer way of life. Colombia has, in fact, lacked political stability since it became independent from the Spanish Empire in 1819. Since their first arrival in the United States, Colombians have worked hard to establish their own identity among the many different Hispanic populations and to find their place within conventional America. However, despite this, many immigrants often suffer the effects of stereotyping and discrimination because of the many negative American perceptions of Colombia as a drug-trafficking, criminal country, even though a very tiny number of Colombians in the United States happen to engage in any of these illegal activities.

This rhetorical device helps the reader understand what the author is feeling by conveying certain emotions. In Sullivan’s essay, the emotion that she was trying to convey was of how she wanted to be indolent and not go to a funeral because she did not see the importance of it. “I was 16 and trying to get out of going to calling hours for Miss Emerson, my old fifth grade math teacher” (Sullivan). Even though she did not want to go to the funeral, she ended up going. Twenty years later, the teacher’s mother still remembers the author’s name. This anecdote brings the emotion of homesickness and melancholy. Pathos can help the author connect with the reader by displaying the emotions they felt at that time of the

Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on

Pathos is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

Pathos: It is the use of emotion and affect to persuade the audience. In this appeal, the author creates an emotional statement: “ an overworked single mother may find herself over stressed and fatigued at the end of the day, making