Literary Analysis Of The Boy In The Striped Pajamas

The ultimate goal of pathos is to emotionally impact the readers in a way that leaves the stories ever-present in their minds for months or even years to come. Pathos is conveyed through the depictions of hardship, poverty, and loneliness faced by Suitcase Lady and multiple characters in ‘Of Mice and Men’. From broken dreams and complete isolation to extreme poverty, the characters are able to connect with the audience through feelings of sadness and pity. Isolation, delusion, and poverty are the traits of characters that are key to evoking emotional and sorrowful reactions from the readers.

Equiano also uses pathos in his narrative. Pathos is when emotions including pity and sadness is evoked.For example, while being separated from his sister for the first time, Equiano mentions how he cried and grieved continually; and for several days did not eat anything and starved. Although he didn't eat anything, the times that he did eat was usually not by his own will but by force which is another example of Pathos in his writing. He ends up reuniting with his sister however, once again, she gets taken away and he continues to express his sadness of their separation and comes to the conclusion that he’s more miserable than before. “ ..she was again torn from me forever!.. I was now more miserable, if possible, that before.” (page 465)

In “Bless me, Ultima” Rudolfo Anaya created pathos throughout the story with different techniques. Pathos is a form of convincing the readers of an argument and forming an emotional response. Rudolfo Anaya uses three techniques to create pathos, he uses a pathetic situation, actual life, and goth and grotesque. A pathetic situation creates emotional response with a well-developed character. Actual life is created by the writer making the reader feel as if there in the position of the character or see it happening around in real life.

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.

example of pathos because it plays with peoples emotions and they can more relate to this and

Chief Joseph successfully utilizes pathos in the sense of him making the audience feel awful for what him and tribe has had to go through. He talks about the most vulnerable people, children, saying, “The little children are freezing to death.” He knows that the children ran away from all of the adults that were older than them, or at least the ones still alive and knew that they probably would not live since it was freezing outside and there was no food or shelter. It makes the reader sympathize with Chief Joseph and share his sorrow. Chief knows that the little children are freezing and starving to death. He says, “ My heart is sick and sad”, Chief’s heart is aching for all of what he has seen and been through. This helps describe his emotions, by telling us how he

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.

The fence that surrounds the concentration camp is a very important symbol. On one side of the fence, life is great, while on the other side, the most unpleasant things occur. The fence is a symbol as it separates two very different worlds. "There was a huge wire fence that ran along the length of the house and turned in at the top, extending further along in either direction, further than she could possibly see." (Page 31). At the end of the book, Bruno decides to crawl under the fence to help Shmuel find his father. The fence is overcome when Bruno crawls under. This symbolises that the fence and people's disagreements could be overcome if they tried. Once on the other side of the fence, Bruno starts to realise how different it is from his side of the fence. He becomes scared and wants to go home. This shows how easily one fence can separate two completely different worlds. Another major symbol is the striped pyjamas. The detention centre uniforms are what divide the Jews from the Germans. This is overcome in the book as Bruno decides to put on the uniform, therefore making him equal to every Jew in the centre. When Bruno is dressed in the pyjamas, he, Shmuel and every other person in the uniform are seen as the same. This symbolises that there are no major differences between Jews and Germans. Every human being should be seen as equal and given the same

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.

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 an emotional appeal in which the advertisers hope that the consumers will allow their claim. Say for instance most people will notice a puppy behind what looks like to be a rusty cage. Seeing a cage like that, makes some wonder how bad the conditions are that the puppy is living in. then there is the puppy who

Pathos is the appeal to onesone’s emotion, in this case to create a connection between the viewer and the hero. In Captain

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

The next day where its raining and extremely muddy Bruno went to meetup with Shmuel at the fence to go on the search for Shmuel’s father . Finally Bruno was on the opposite side of the fence , as he was sneaking around trying to blend in with other people he never saw nothing like that seeing everyone looking miserable and skinny.

Pathos, according to merriam-webster.com, is defined as “an element in experience or in artistic representation evoking pity or compassion”. The Rich Brother uses this appeal to grasp the heart strings of its audience; to have compassion and/or pity towards the brothers. As author Tobias Wolff states in this piece, “Do you remember when you used to try to kill me? ...Is that strange or what? I was afraid that you’d get mad if you found out that I knew you were trying to kill me” (328-329). In this quote Tobias Wolff, a short story author, makes