Jonathan Safran Foer Let Them Eat Dog

The article was well-written and it’s a narrative and argumentative article although the author argument appears to be more ethical rather rational. The article begin in an unexpected way which is telling stories about his life he mentioned his grandmother which adds to the argument an high emotional tone but his calls to the reasons are weak. The main idea of the article was understood and it supported with personal experience overall, the article was well structured and the language used in the article was simple and informal although he clearly supported one side of the argument which is we shouldn’t harm animals also Foer ignores the fact animals protein is essential for humans so it seems little bit unfair and biased. Foer appeals repeatedly to emotionally tone, to raise compassion to creatures Foer attempts to inspire compelling feelings in the audience. The article contained huge amount of pathos due to the fact he shares his own personal story about his childhood memories how he admires his grandmother and her special dish chicken with carrot, his teenagers years as a confused teen searching for his identity leading to meeting his wife and having first baby. He sometimes appealed to logos by stating some facts “According to an analysis of U.S.D.A data by the advocacy group farm forward, factory farms now produce more than 99 percent of the animals eaten in this

The hunters only connection with animals is not a positive one as he is killing them and using them as work. This work may either be making him money or he is using these animals as a source of food whether it is to feed himself or his family. The hunter mentions how he has killed many animals but when stacked it does not seem as if there are many animals and this causes him to feel regret. This connection with animals shows that he does actually have feelings for the animals that he has killed. On the author hand in “Man Dog” we experience a more positive involvement with animals as the main character is envying his dog. This envying leads to him acting like his dog in multiple ways. “But there was a pebble under my flank so I got up and looked for the pebble, brushed it away and lay back down. My dog thus far overlooked the pebble. I guess it 's her thick Lab fur” (Underwood). The main character is having an unsuccessful time acting like his dog but he is trying hard and this frustrates his dog as “I moved near the actual dog this time

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

This food chain is a food chain where people go out and personally goto hunt or gather for their food. The best usage of pathos in this section is where Michael Pollan was irritated that society says “Hunting is one of the sills that the All American boy is supposed to have” (Pollan 208). The author himself had never hunted before this book and thought that he is still as much of a man even though he hadn’t hunted. The author is trying to make the readers feel annoyed that society is deciding how an American boy should be when they shouldn't. The best way of portraying logos is where the author shows a diagram about the process of how cows are killed through the double rail cattle slaughter system (Pollan 227). The author is trying to help the readers understand the process of killing cows this way with a visual. The best example of ethos in this section is when Pollan had just hunted a pig but stated “ I felt regret about killing that pig”(Pollan 245). The author did not like hunting. Michael Pollan is a credible source since he had gone out to hunt and kill a pig but regretted it after. This makes the readers trust him because he had killed the pig himself. These are the best examples of ethos, pathos and

Pathos is another word for sympathy. In the speech “People and Peace, not Profits and War,” Chisholm states in lines 5-8, “As a teacher, and as a woman, I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending $9 billion -- and more, I am sure -- on elaborate, unnecessary, and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital get nothing” (39). Chisholm uses pathos to show her feelings about the children. In his Vietnam speech, Martin Luther King Jr. states, “We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only non communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men” (156). King uses pathos so that the readers agree with his opinions on the Vietnam War. In “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes, he calls himself the farmer, the worker, the negro, and the people (1). Hughes wants people to realize how unfortunate he is and he wants people to sympathize with his feelings. Pathos triggers the reader’s emotions. They begin to sympathize with whoever is displaying their feelings. Authors may use this device to help the readers see the situation in their point of

He first uses pathos when he talked about how many animals are euthanized each year and how those animals are used for food (Foer). By using pathos it either brings out the audience’s sympathy or anger trying to convince them to make a difference. In his article he is trying to appeal to the audience emotional side to convince them eating animals is wrong. The second time he uses pathos is when he talks about how the Hawaiians hold the dog’s nose shut ¬¬in order to conserve the blood (Foer). When he talks about other cultures traditions, he is trying to show his readers how disgusting and horrifying other traditions are no matter which animal is being killed. The third time he uses pathos in his article is when he talks about a Filipino recipe. “First, kill a medium-sized dog, then burn the fur over a hot fire (Foer). While reading this sentence most animal lovers would feel horrified at the mental image running through their mind. His whole point of using the Filipino recipe was to show people how other cultures use different animals, but he mostly wanted people to see if the recipe called for chicken, cow, or even horse most people would be okay with the recipe. Pathos is a good tool to use in ones article because emotion is a good way to capture the audience to try and make them take a stand on the issue at

First from a rational appeal, the author challenges you to remove the emotion or stigma from the act of using a dog for meat. He does a good job at this by questioning why the act of eating a dog is any different from other animals. If we can agree that all animals can feel and have some range of emotion, then what makes a dog a superior species? The author uses the

In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls uses pathos to make her point. Pathos is a rhetorical device that appeals to your emotions. “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the the garbage pails, I’s go retrieve them. I couldn’t get over the way kids tossed out all this perfectly good food: apples, hard-boiled eggs, packages of peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half-pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the pimentos in cheese,” (Walls 173). Walls uses this device frequently in her book to appeal to the reader’s emotions when she talks about her family or her personal experiences. This quote shows how everyday, Walls constantly had to scavenge for food. This tugs at your heart because you couldn’t imagine

When reading a story with animals as the main focus, human characteristics are either found in or projected onto the characters in order to make them relatable. “Man’s best friend” -a.k.a. dogs- are relatively easy to relate to for this reason; people see their dogs as one of the family, talking to and sometimes

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.

Ethos is conveyed by using “my friends” to show how Wiesel is attempting to persuade the trust of the audience (Wiesel, 1999/16, p. 80). The author uses historic facts to show how much indifference there is in the world and why there is a need for vigilance in the face of evil. Pathos is pulling on one’s heart strings because it is, after all, easier to look away from one’s pain and misery and just carry on with everyday life. As Helen Keller once said, “Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all -- the apathy of human beings.” (Simran, 2017, Random musings, para.

Pathos represents an appeal to the emotions of the audience. Mowat uses this rhetorical strategy to get us to feel the emotions that he felt. When arriving in Churchill, Mowat says that he discovered that “although wolves reputedly devour several people in the Arctic Zone every year, they will always refrain from attacking a pregnant eskimo” (24). In Chapter 4 When is a Wolf Not a Wolf?, Mowat shares his fear. He hears howling in the distance and quickly hides saying “I found myself wishing I were a pregnant eskimo” (42). Although this is funny, it made me feel fear for Mowat because of Churchill’s rumors that you would be eaten. It turns out the howling was just huskies which led Mowat to the realization that maybe everything that the people said isn’t true. A couple chapters later in Chapter 7 The Watcher Watched, Mowat learned that maybe wolves aren’t savage killers and maybe just the opposite of that. This lesson was learned when Mowat was out searching for the wolves and they were behind him the whole time. A struck of shock lit Mowat up when he realized that the wolves had any chance to attack him and they didn’t, instead they sat quietly and observed Mowat. This sent fear through me because it led Mowat to new ideas which means he’s going to put more trust into the wolves and go right into it with an open mind. From Chapter 7 on, the whole perspective changes.

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

When I read this text I do not have any emotional connection, which is why I believe this article does not use pathos.

Pathos helps the readers get more motivated to try and bring about a change, because they aren’t satisfied with the way things are. Chavez states that “We know that it cannot be more important than one human life” and “the burdens of generations of poverty and powerlessness lie heavy in the fields of America”. The use of pathos helps the readers see and realize that violence is not the answer, that violence destroys and they feel they need to help this cause. Pathos gets the audience to feel the authors emotions through the essay and want to do something to help. Pathos is used as a motivator and a huge persuasive strategy to get the audience on his audience on his