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Pathos In Do Seek Their Meat From God

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Pathos in “Do seek their meat from God” To have a good story, the audience must feel for the characters. Sir Charles G.D. Roberts does a great job at creating pathos in “Do seek their meat from God”. Roberts amplifies the pathos that the reader feels by incorporating descriptive details, one-sided conflicts and the theme of loyalty. Firstly, to create pathos, the author uses descriptive details. Throughout, the readers feel bad for the cubs for diverse reasons. For instance, the cubs are said to be newborns, which means that they are completely dependent on their parents. Hence, if their mother and father don’t come back they will die. Also, they are also described as blind which lowers their chance of survival drastically. At the very end of the story, the settler finds the cubs’ bodies decaying (page 87). The …show more content…

During the story, the first conflict is between the two panthers and the child. In summary, the two panthers were going to hunt for food for their cubs when all of a sudden they heard a distant cry (page 83). The panthers changed their path with intentions of killing the child and bringing it back for the cubs. As a result, the audience feel bad for the child because if the panthers get to it, they will win with no doubt about it. The second conflict is between the settler that has a gun and the two panthers. To begin, the settler is walking back from work when suddenly he hears a child crying. He tries to contemplate whether or not to turn around and go check if everything is okay. He finally turns around and discovers that the child was crying because the panthers were face-to-face with the child. Therefore, the settler shot the panthers to save the child. Because of this, the readers feel bad for the panthers and the cubs since the cubs will obviously die from starvation without their parents. Thus, the diverse one-sided conflicts bring out sympathy towards the

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