Pathos Death List

“The teacher was dead; she had been cannibalistically cut up by the girls who, after killing her, cannibalistically disposed of her remains.” (Solari 198) This story is one of much symbolic importance, and in one way, the teacher herself represents poetry in society. After the teacher was killed, the people finally realized how much she had meant to the school. The principal is shocked to see this teacher dead, but the parents of the children, are not so preoccupied with the death of the teacher. At an emergency PTA meeting held to decide what should be done with their predicament, fathers began to only worry about the damaging nature of stopping their daughters’ studies, without a single feeling of sorrow for the loss of the teacher. After all agreeing to release the information to the police and the press, the public goes mad. This was the story of a lifetime, a news reporters dream, “The whole thing was blown up in the press and newspapers sold like hotcakes,” (Solari 201) but all things come to an end at some point; after some time, all hype and confusion

The title is what attracts and helps readers decide on whether to read any piece of work. Paterniti chooses a whimsical title for this article. Specifically, ‘the long fall’ refers to time−the last minutes the victims experienced, and the number of days the rescue workers spent finding the cause of the plane crash. The flight’s number is used in the title. ‘One-eleven heavy’ is also a term used by the pilots to report an emergency; the pilot says, “Affirmative for one eleven-heavy” (95). The word ‘heavy’ represents the ‘heavy’ emotions the victims and families feel and refers to the crash, of which “one fisherman thought it was a bomb, another was certain the End had arrived…” (94). As a result, the title has a poetic effect on readers as it immediately grasping the readers’ attention.

This also exposes the great offense that is being inflicted on the African-American community by bringing in a case that explains the consequences for nonviolent protests. These three men protested peacefully, and in return they were given the death penalty. This sentence allows the reader to take in this situation and to logically infer that voting must be the answer in order to protect the African-American community.

For many years, some people would say dealing with the death of a loved one can be hard. In today’s society, many people have dealt with that pain. Even though individuals can respond differently dealing with the murder of a loved one but taking justice into your own hands can relieve the pain that it has caused on the family. Why it is that death can cause so much pain to the ones we love? Using the biographical and psychological critical strategies to analyze “Killings”. Focusing on Andre Dubus past how is it connected with the story and psychological strategy of the mind of someone who is hurt by death.

Meyer, Michael. "Killings." The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing. Ninth ed. Boston, MA: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2012. 96-108. Print.

In an attempt to appeal to the audience’s emotion, Brown presents information that influences the audience on an emotional level and helps them connect with the article from a personal aspect. Stating what was seen upon finding the women, Brown writes, “Both Patterson and Brown had their throats slit; the other bodies were in too advanced a state of decomposition to determine the cause of death, though the coroner often suspected asphyxia. The victims were mired in poverty and mental illness; and all had hustled Jennings’ south side streets for drugs and sex.” After reading this it creates a graphic image in the readers mind and allows the reader to be able to imagine what it would feel like to walk in the room and picture people with their throats slit. By visualizing what’s going on in this specific part of the article the reader can then imagine themselves or someone they love being in that same position. Another instance that appeals to the readers emotions is when in an interview with witness, Jerry Jackson, Brown

Earlier on in in his article, Thornburgh states that “There were plenty of deaths there, but they were meek tragedies” when talking about the beheading that had been rumored to be going on in the desert (Gooch 325). What Thornburgh is talking about is the fact that there are rumors going on about immigrants being beheaded in the desert, but in truth they are being abandoned by their guides. Thornburgh is attempting to say that the rumors of beheading are not true and that the rumors have led to more violence. However he comes off as dismissive towards the lives that were lost as unimportant, which would throw someone off reading his paper if they disagreed with that sentiment. Thornburgh is trying to dismiss the idea of rumors, and in the same sentence is also dismissing the event itself and writing it off as if it wasn’t that big of a deal. This contradicts himself seeing as his whole point within the argument seems to be about the fact that these rumors lead to the violence happening. The thing he is most dismissive about, however, is the need for statistics.

mother’s death I can remember everyone who was in the stands that day...” This reference to the narrator’s vivid memory and the detailed depiction of the event shows the gravity of the situation and allows the reader to fully grasp the impact that the accident had on both the protagonist and the narrator. This act of bizarre violence is used masterfully in the author’s recount of his life. It shows how hard it is for a young boy to lose the only parent he ever knew and it also shows how hard it is for a child to be implicated in an event where someone close to the child has been unintentionally killed.

Jenkin uses a lot of pathos in her article, which effects a reader in an emotional level by feeling very disgusted by phrases such as “he came from privilege”, and “planned the murders for months” (7) . This technique is at its strongest emotionally, but in terms of credibility,i weak because she provides very minimal credible sources which affects her technique because she has very good material such “the nation is NOT sentencing children to die in prison” and “juvenile death penalty was abolished years ago”, but the issue is that she did not provide a credible source, so it would leave the reader questioning if this information she provided is

The scene is horrible, bodies lay on the ground killed by guns, hatchets, and knives even war clubs all just beyond words. The bodies on the ground are not the only ones they find, in the houses they find much more. Some that hid in the cellars died as they were trapped in the fire. Mothers, fathers and children burned and smothered in what they thought would be safe.

Humans are conditioned to believe that murderers deserve punishments decreed by the justice system, with their days numbered, meaning to be spent in misery, as they wrongfully extinguished the lives of others. However, while murder is never acceptable, it is necessary to analyze the story, often rooted in trauma, of how a murderer came to be, which naturally can evoke compassion within the reader. Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood provides a look at a man who had a troubling childhood and adult life, ultimately arousing sympathy for Perry Smith. Perry lived through a hard childhood, and was deprived of many things every child should receive. Although Perry is portrayed as a cold hearted killer, readers can still find sympathy in their hearts for him.

The night drew closer around the individuals who, some in dreams, some in panic, seemed to react to impending danger and turned, some to nightmares, some to an eerie calm, as those on death row that accepted their demise for what it was, an abrupt shattering of their existence. Be that as it may, however, some did not wish to go so simply. While some wished for a calm ending, but embraced nevertheless a less subtle end, that of fire and mutilation, others feared it for what it was, or what it could be. Some feared being lost, trapped in a dungeon of previously sound architecture, to watch the edges of their vision turn to the blackness of

He first emphasizes how ample and bright the place is. He also narrates how there are “poisonous particles… as motes in sun-beams, into the lungs” (40). He expresses how suffocating this place is with a cough (14). The fact that the women don’t cough and are “used to it” is like saying they don’t breathe anymore. He describes the women as the “blank-looking girls, with blank, white folders in their blank hands” (12). He portrays these women as cadavers being preserved in this cold place, like a morgue. He says, “…face pale with work, and blue with cold; an eye supernatural with unrelated misery” (11). He is intentionally making the reader feel they are dead alive through the description of a physical death, then a social and emotional death.

The style of narration has been criticised. Some see it as stark, inconsistent, overly poetic and too glib to treat the nature of war and its atrocities. Others find death’s narration entertaining, sardonic, sympathetic and profound. The reaction of the audience is not swayed nor forced by an author-created sense of emotion in the story. By presenting most details using a matter-of-fact tone and the style of brief news headings, the author, vie his narration technique, allows the audience to connect directly with the protagonist.

Chris Sacco uses human emotions to draw the reader into the article, by giving real life moments. One story can stick with someone for their whole life, but if they do not let it affected them, then it was just a story. However if they let is hit home, then it has a chance of changing their outlook on thing, such as how they handle guns or look at them. Chris uses multiple occasions to support his argument to show that in just seconds everything can change and he does that though detail. Chris mentions a story from NBC about a specific event when a family was “getting ready to order pizza when he heard a gun go off.” Here Chris is letting the readers mind wonder if someone was seriously injured, and he is pulling you into the