Ethos Pathos And Logos

The fairy tale helps the child to understand a balance between the good and the evil; it gives him a hope for a good future.” Fairy tales assure the

In the essay “Fairy Tales and Modern Stories”, Bruno Bettelheim argues that fairy tales can provide children more reassurance than realistic stories. Bettelheim used examples like “The Little Engine that Could”,”The Swiss Family Robinson” and “Rapunzel” to show how realistic stories and fairy tales both affected children’s thinking. The author claims that modern stories don’t compare to fairy tales, because they can’t provide an outlet for children to work through their problems and emotions. Bettelheim explains that fairy tales give children the reassurance and hope that there's a better future that is waiting for them. He argues that fairy tales can have a more impactful effect because it can offer “escape” and “consolation” for troublesome events in their lives. He even claims that modern stories fail to give the reader “encouraging

Tartar explains how a little Fairy Tale can affect someone’s life, it could be by their personality, or even just little things such as how they see life. She then explains that even reading the same stories as people got older, like for example The Little Red Riding Hood, each person will see it with a different message. On Maria Tatar work she explains some of the psychological aspects that are involved in knowledge development of children; she makes an emphasis on how some “fairy-tale characters always seem to be lying, cheating, or stealing their way to good fortune.” (Paragraph-10, Pg. 231); most parents do not want their children to steal things from other people. Tatar states that as people get older, they are more likely to forget the strong messages that a simple

Bettelheim believed that fairy tales must be left for a child's own interpretation in order for them to apply these tales to their own life as they begin to understand their conscious and unconscious selves. Bettelheim states that “the vagueness of the tales [is] pedagogically suited to these tasks in that it engages the child's imagination to fill in the details and invest his interests on whatever level he finds himself” (Heisig). The tales commonly deal with universal problems that everyone faces, and children are able to easily apply these universal problems and messages to their own lives. Children comprehend that although the tales are untrue, they are not unreal, so they apply these tales to their own beings (Heisig). Furthermore, the fairy tales engages a child's imagination, and this allows him to sort out his conscious and unconscious self. A child must overcome the psychological problems of growing up by coping with his unconscious self, and fairy tales allows children to familiarize themselves with their unconscious mind by fitting unconscious content into conscious fantasies, enabling him to cope with that content (Tatar 270). In the process of relieving his conscious and unconscious pressures, children must work through these psychological problems by themselves, and “in

In the beginning of the book, Coates, as a little kid and his big brother, Big Bill gets into an alteration with the Murphy Homes (a gang), but Coates is not a fighter; he avoids fights and does not like to feel angry. Coates does not throw one single punch and tries to run away from the fight. Instead, he gets struck by one of them; however, he manages to escape the scene. Using the rhetorical analyisis, Coates used logos and pathos in this scene. Logos is facts and statistics, but also, knowledge or logic.

In the first paragraph, the author uses ethos by mentions Harvard to prove his credibility to the reader. In the second paragraph he uses pathos in his thesis statement, to spark emotion that underage drinking is a huge problem that needs to be fixed. In the third paragraph pathos is used by the author when he tries to list reasons why the drinking age should be changed, because people that are 18 can serve in the military, get married, vote, and etc. He also says “But laws in all 50 states say that no alcoholic beverages may be sold to anyone until that magic "21" birthday” when he says magic 21 is almost trying to stir up emotion. In the fourth paragraph he uses logos by comparing the rates of drinking with young adults in United States and

Rhetorical Devices: Ethos, Pathos, Logos The two articles written had different goals to reach out to readers. The article, "Can Animals Think?" by Eugene Linden, main purpose was to convince readers that animals have a similar mentality as humans. The second article, "Who Wants to Shoot an Elephant?

He mentions a charter school called Kipp saying that, “Kipp students will have doubled their math and science scores by the time they graduate.” Using this rhetoric device persuades the audience to agree with the speaker’s point because it states irrefutable facts that support his argument. Another example of logos occurred when the author states that there is a direct correlation between students dropping out of high school and students that go to prison. This appeals to logos because it gives facts to emphasize the fact that going to a good high school has a big impact on your

The tradition of telling fairy tales to children effects not only the listener but also the reader. Maria Tatar, in her book Off with Their Heads!, analyzes how fairy tales instill and reaffirm cultural values and expectations in their audience . Tatar proposes that fairy tales fall into three different tale-types: cautionary tales, exemplary stories, and reward- and- punishment tales. These three types portray different character traits as desirable and undesirable. Due to the tale’s varying literary methods it can change the effectiveness of the tale’s pedagogical value. In Tatar’s opinion, all of these tales are similar in the way they attempt to use punishment, reward, and fear to encourage or discourage certain behaviors. In the cautionary fairy tale “The Virgin Mary’s Child”, the use of punishment and fear to discourage certain behaviors is enhanced by the Christian motifs and values employed by the tale. These literary devices encourage the audience to reflect on and internalize the lessons that are presented in the fairy tale.

There is nothing more precious and heartwarming than the innocence of a child. The majority of parents in society want to shield children from the bad in life which is appreciated. Within human nature exists desires of inappropriate behavior; envy, deceit, selfishness, revenge, violence, assault and murder. The most well-known fairy tales depict virtue and the evil in life. Even more important, the form and structure of fairy tales suggest images to the child by which he can structure his daydreams and with them give a better direction to his life. (Bettelheim).

In this twelve page article by, Armelle Hours, a correlation between fairy tales and treating abused children is investigated. Hours focuses her study on children in France that have been placed into foster care due to maltreatment. In this experiment, Hours, a youth worker, and psychology intern, work together to organize a playgroup at the foster home. The playgroup met once a week for an hour and involved six children, ranging from ages 6-12. Hours’ playgroup would start off by reading fairy tale classics, and then the children would have a chance to act out the story using clay models, drawings, and all other child appropriate materials within the room. Hours illustrates two of the playgroup sessions that were held. In the first playgroup session, they read the story Cinderella and Hours focuses on a six year old girl. The girl asked Hours to make her an elephant trunk before she participated in the Cinderella play, even though the elephant trunk had nothing to do with the original story. After having the trunk on her face, the girl became the leader of the play and made clay food for all the other children. Hours explains that the girl may have needed the mask in order to feel comfortable around her peers. The elephant trunk

Joosen’s thesis revolves around the didactic potential fairy tales hold, arguing the feminist side in criticizing the gender bias and influence that fairy tales have on young children. She goes on to introduce the idea that retelling fairy tales, with a feminist twist, provides a new perspective on the traditional ones, using Sleeping Ugly as an example. Joosen then compares Lieberman’s critiques to the tale – traditional versus transformed. Following, she analyzes the purpose of retellings and problems within the example tale. The writer highlights the idea of “read[ing] against the text” to question the intertextual connections (135). To conclude, Joosen reiterates the argument between the educational and aesthetic aspect of the

The influence of fairy tales has transcended through an array of literary genres and various elements have made it into classic children’s novels. J.M. Barrie’s, Peter and Wendy (1911) and Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol (1843) are just a couple of examples that utilized fairy tale themes, motifs, and symbols to enhance the stories. Although the stereotypical singing animals, evil step mothers, and royalty are not found in these stories; Barrie and Dickens delve deep into the world of fairy tales and wrote novels that go beyond the surface. Some of the fairy tale elements that can be seen throughout both novels includes, magic and make-believe and the struggle between good and evil.

Reading fairy tales or seeing them represented has become part of an everyday routine for children. As Baker-Sperry states, “Through interaction that occurs within everyday routines (Corsaro 1997), children are able to learn the rules of the social group in which they are a part” (Baker-Sperry 717-718). For example, through Red Riding Hood, children learn to listen to their parents and to be wary of strangers. Some of these messages are harmful though; not all girls have to be naive and weak while boys are predacious wolves. Not everyone has to play the role that society assigns them.

A happy ending reassures children and young readers that good people always win and even though they have obstacles to overcome and may find themselves close to losing more than one time, there is always the certainty that good will win eventually, giving the child a sense of safety and confidence and more importantly the motive to be a good person themselves. Fairy tales are the most important element in a child’s life as it is the metaphor through which he sees the world and most important the metaphor through which he understands the world. Real life is rough for a child, he cannot understand the bad things that happen to him, he not able to see a future solution to the problem or to be patient and wait for heaven-given outcome, he is too