Cooke's Use Of Emotion In The Writing Of Gopnik

Throughout the centuries, there have been an infinite amount of literary works written by a sea of authors that write a variety of genres. All of these works are precious in their own way, and even if their theme is similar to that of another, the author always ads a bit of his/her own flare in order to make said literary creation unique in some way. William Wordsworth’s “London 1802” and Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “Douglass”, although quite similar in form and sentence structure, do add their own flare through the use of specific details. Through the use of these devices, the speakers show their disgust for the evil deeds humans do and

For example, he makes the statement “You’ve bloodied us as we have never been bloodied before .” This statement may not use words that directly says that he is angry, but the tone can still be felt by understanding why Pitts includes this statement in his essay. He is addressing a group of people who had inflicted unimaginable pain and suffering onto the American people. He acknowledges that their actions have left a wound that may never heal, and he is not happy about it. This anger led to a desire for retribution, and this resulted in an additional tone that was expressed in this essay.

He likes to reference the 2008 presidential campaign and depending on the political opinions of the reader it can conjure up many different emotions in some reader. By using pathos he gets people more interested in the topic of the article by involving their emotions and making it easy to relate to through the use of recent events. He uses an example of John McCain choosing not respond to rumors which he later explains is the wrong way to go about combatting a rumor. In the article he writes,“When John McCain, during the 2000 Republican primaries, was plagued with rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate child, for the most part he opted not to engage with them at all” (513). The fact that this example can be agreed with or disagreed with can bring emotions along from the reader.

The author uses pathos, the appeal to emotion frequently. One example of pathos is when he says, “The Cold War threatened total annihilation, a hot war killed a hundred servicemen each week,

To achieve this effect, Alexander appeals to the pathos of the readers. According to Thank You For Arguing, “Pathos, or argument by emotion…appeals to the brain, gut, and the heart of your audience,” (Heinrichs 40). To appeal to these various parts of the readers, Alexander utilizes rhetoric. The rhetoric in Alexander’s text basically gives the readers a call to action. Alexander uses an experience of an individual, who was targeted because of his race to appeal to pathos of the readers, “In that case, Terrance Bostick, a twenty-eight-year-old African American, had been sleeping in the back seat of a Greyhound bus…suspicionless police,” (Alexander XX). Alexander uses this personal experience of Mr. Bostick to reveal the ambiguities in the American justice system. She frames the experience in such a way that the police are looked upon as the bad guys, which shows how she has appealed to the pathos of the readers. The specific readers, who are are target of Alexander’s text, feel that there is something wrong with the justice system if people are only being suspected and arrested based on their skin color. They do not feel bad for the person’s actions, as they were illegal, but they demean the manner in which he was arrested and it sort of riles them up. Alexander uses this type of rhetoric in her text to emphasize that the United States’ justice system is set up in a

Set at the end of the Cold War in East Germany, the movie Goodbye Lenin is the story of a young man, Alex, trying to protect his mother, Christiane, who just spent the last eight months in a coma. Christiane is a personification of the values and ideology of socialism. She carries them out in her interactions with society, and is very hopeful towards the success of the regime. During her absence, the fall of the Berlin Wall and of the German Democratic Republic leads to a radical and turbulent change in society: the fall of socialism and the triumph of capitalism. Because of the shocking effect of such information and the danger of another heart attack, Alex creates for Christiane an ideological form of socialism. Fundamental themes in the movie are the difference between ideal and reality of socialism, as well as the positive and negative aspects of the transition to free market capitalism. Such themes are carried out through a juxtaposition of an ideal society and its reality in the form of a constructed reality of socialism. This idealized version of socialism served as an oasis from the chaotic transition from a problematic socialist regime to free market capitalism.

Allen goes deeper into depth with the controversial topic of “Flag burning”. Allen establishes a deep emotional tone when talking about the desecration of the American Flag. Allen expresses is opinion and supports it throughout the article, his tone is less formal than moving, and passionate. “The American flag is a cherished symbol of our national aspirations” (paragraph 2, line 10) quotes such as this one show Allen’s passionate, and strongly patriotic tone when addressing the American flag. “Any messages that burning the flag might convey easily can be communicated in other ways” (paragraph 2, line 17) Allen uses quotes, or phrases such as this one to establish a deeply passionate tone for the

One of these heavy hitting points is his next major tone. King uses a very intimate tone in the next section and gets very personal with the reader. King talks about “vicious mobs lynch your mothers and fathers” and “drown your sisters and brothers at whim.” He uses these phases to establish empathy with the reader and develop pathos. This use of pathos and empathy gets the recipients of the argument more on his side. King knows he really needs people to feel for his side, so he spends about half of his letter developing a connection with the reader. This tone not only develops more of a connection with the reader but also ramps up his argument. King ramps up his argument to get the reader ready for his next use of diction to create tone.

The beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

Stick to the basic script, right? Or maybe, instead of sticking to it, veering off the main script is able to strengthen the piece of writing as a whole. It can breathe fresh air into a work and give it that extra boost that satisfies every writer’s goal of leaving an impact on their reader. Cry, the Beloved Country does this through its intercalary chapters by giving Paton a chance to try out different writing conventions not seen in the rest of the book, setting a space for Paton to really go full throttle in writing directly about an issue or idea, and building a deeper relationship between the reader and setting of the novel. From the outside, this book can look incredibly simple, and in some ways it is – a short novel with simple language and a simple message about the pitfalls of discrimination. But take a moment to look under the surface, and things like the intercalary chapters begin to jump out. There is something more there to this book, and there is meaning buried throughout. The intercalary sections only help to strengthen that meaning, a meaning that would be much more diluted without them. For while Paton preaches all these great things throughout the novel, what greatness would they really hold, if not for the meaning behind them? In the end, it is the meaning that breathes them life, and it is the whole book, intercalary and main plot combined, that make it

Dave Eggers is the author of many common read books. One of his known reads is a true story titled Zeitoun, about a Syrian-American living in New Orleans, Louisiana during Hurricane Katrina. Eggers uses many strategies throughout this story to involve the audience and get a sense of how people lived through Hurricane Katrina. Consequently, he narrowed into one particular family’s tribulations, and that family happened to be the Zeitouns. Many times throughout the book, Zeitoun, Eggers exhibits the rhetorical appeals; ethos, logos, and pathos in order to support his argument.

Many second generation minorities from immigrant parents are driven subconsciously to conform to new culture and social norms. For foreign born parents and native born children integrating the two cultures they inhabit brings about different obstacles and experiences. In Jhumpa’s “The Namesake” the protagonist Gogol is a native born American with foreign born parents. The difference with birth location plays an important role in assimilating to a new society in a new geography. The difficulty for parents is the fact that they’ve spent a decent amount of time accustomed to a new geography, language, culture and society which makes it difficult to feel comfortable when all of that changes. For Gogol the difficulty only lies with the cultural norms imposed by his parent’s and the culture and social norms that are constantly presented in the new society.

In Gorgias we have a conversation between Socrates, Gorgias, and Polus, Gorgias' young assistant. They speak on the matters of rhetoric, knowledge, and whether injustice and suffering is better to do or have done onto you. While conventional wisdom tells us that it is better to inflict suffering than to receive it, Socrates argues that it is completely the opposite. Part of Socrates view is that moral goodness is connected with knowledge, and that morally it is better to receive suffering than inflict it.

The book I chose to do my book report on is "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich". The book is about the most forceful indictments of political oppression in the Stalin era Soviet Union. It is a captiving story about the life in a Siberian labor camp, related to the point of view of Ivan Denisovich, a prisoner. It takes place in a span of one day, "from dawn till dusk" (pg. 111) . This book also describes his struggles and emotional stress that he must going through.

Imperial Russian society during the time of serfdom was characterized by constantly changing social order. The society experienced a complex social change at the threshold to emancipation. It was undergoing many changes with increasing westernization and serfdom culture that gave rise to formation of new classes (raznochintsy) during the nineteenth century. Many authors have reflected and emphasized this component of change in the structure of pre-emancipation Russian society. This paper will examine how two writers: Nikolai Gogol and Ivan Turgenev, in their novels, Dead Souls and Fathers and Sons depict the society’s constantly changing nature through the relationships between their characters and the development in their beliefs and ideas. Although both the novels explore societal change during the pre-emancipation of serfs, the emphasis of change is different in both the novels. In Fathers and Sons, Turgenev oversees shifting values prevalent in the society. He explores the shift in generational values by depicting the difference in beliefs of characters like Bazarov and Nikolai. On the other hand, in Dead Souls Gogol focuses on issues of morality in society. He depicts a struggle for morality and portrays a corrupt society through the landowners and the protagonist, Chichikov, in his book.