Pathos In Mike Kinnney Speech

For example, Wallace says, “But then you remember there's no food at home — you haven't had time to shop this week, because of your challenging job — and so now after work you have to get in your car and drive to the supermarket.” (Wallace). The purpose of using this storyline is because it allows the audience to be able to relate to what the author talks about. This imaginary scenario is one that not only the graduates can relate to, it’s also something that the parents and/or other older attenders can speak from. Using examples such as these is significant to the authors use of pathos also because it can help the author to develop an emotional connection with their audience. Another example would be when he touches on the subject of suicide. “And the truth is that most of these suicides are actually dead long before they pull the trigger” (Wallace). Suicide is clearly an emotional and depressing subject and having this in his speech helps readers to understand the unhappiness that people go through before actually committing it. The example of suicide is noteworthy because even if people in that audience may have not had to experience it or dealt with it, it’s still an important matter and to the American society, it continues to be something that more than a majority take to

Steve Jobs effectively uses pathos throughout the speech to appeal emotions of his audience, effectively connecting with audience. Jobs starts off his speech by using pathos saying “I'm honored to be with you today for your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. Truth be told, I never graduated from college, and this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation” (Jobs). From these first two

Another way Clinton uses pathos is when he tries to comfort the people who have lost loved ones by saying, “You have lost too much, but you have not lost everything.” Clinton lets the audience know that they have people that will help them through this hard time and they have the nation behind them: “You have certainly not lost America, for we will stand with you for as many tomorrows as it takes.” Clinton ultimately reaches his goal of comforting his audience by using ethos and pathos strategies throughout his speech.

Thatcher used a pathos appeal to get the audience to feel bad for the passing of Reagan. With this, she gets the audience to feel sorry for her dear friend, and makes them feel the sorrow that she endures. One example of this is shown on lines one through two, “We have lost a great president, a great American, and a great man, and I have lost a dear friend.” These lines get the reader to

Randy Pausch uses Pathos to get his point across to his audience. “I am dying soon, and I am choosing to have fun today, tomorrow, and every other day I have left”. He talks about his kids and how they are the ones he wrote this last lecture for, saying “I only wrote this lecture for three people, and when they’re older, they’ll watch it”. Pausch also talks about his family, and love for his wife. By talking about his family and the love he has for them it appeals to people’s emotions. The reader is able to put themselves in the shoes of either his wife, his child, or his own shoes because everyone knows what it is like to have someone that you care deeply about. The thought of losing that person can really strike a chord and overall creates pathos. Pathos is also established in the introduction of his speech when Pausch is explaining his cancer and how he only has months to live, which is easy for many people to relate to considering there are numerous people who have received the news that their loved one has a short period of time to

Without the usage of pathos, Gehrig’s farewell speech wouldn’t have been nearly as effective with his audience and the audience that would hear his speech or read his speech at a later time. Without pathos, it would’ve just been another professional sport players retirement speech. Many key elements contributed to the emotional appeal of Gehrig’s speech; first, he was finally addressing the reason why he was retiring from baseball, which was because of a life threatening disease known as ALS. Always regarded as one who could pull through anything, Gehrig finally made it clear through this speech that battling this disease was going to be the hardest battle yet and it would prevent him continuing to do what he loved which was play baseball. Nevertheless, Gehrig did not wish to evoke sadness out of his audience, throughout his speech, he sought to give hope over despair, thankfulness over pity, and humbleness over self-righteousness. It was so important that he displayed these emotions because then he would contrast to the ideals that many American people had come to believe. Also throughout the speech Gehrig did not seek sympathy from his situation; in fact, he did not once mention his disease specifically and rather focused on the positive moments that he had experienced throughout his life. Hence, people connected to this speech because here was a man who had experienced hardship upon hardship and yet still

The effective use of pathos is the crowning jewel used throughout Quindlen's article. The emotion portrayed in each testimony gives light and drives the forces of the lasting effects of death and grief. Mrs. Quindlen's specific examples and hard hitting emotional ties of her own experiences delivers a fatal blow to the heart strings of the reader. Quindlen conveys, "My great journalistic contribution to my family is that I write obituaries. First my mother's, 22 years ago, listing her accomplishments: two daughters, three sons. Then that of my father's second wife, dead of the same disease that killed his first one." There is more than meets the eye with his statement, carried throughout the article.

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.

He also includes a lot of emotional parts throughout the speech this is effective as it may get an emotional response from the audience this happens when he says “Your loved ones were daring and brave” and “It is hard to understand, but sometimes painful things like this happen” this is a good use of pathos as it does connect to the emotional feelings of the viewer.

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

With the analysis of rhetorical strategies underway, I would like to discuss the presence of pathos in the speech. Sanger was a very passionate writer, and this allowed her to be absorbed into the paper. I noticed that, in Sanger’s speech, there were many emotionally loaded words. For example:

The pathos appeal in this TED talk uses personal accounts from Lauren Pharr as well as stories and phrases that keep the audience interacting and responding to the presentation. Therefore, it creates a light-hearted, attentive mood that captures and maintains the audience’s attention. Ⅲ. Third Point:

In the text of the commencement speech he had made at Stanford University in 2005, it states, “I slept on the floor in friends’ rooms, I returned Coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week” (Jobs). Steve Jobs was left with nothing. He had spared each and every penny for he was truly left on his own with nothing. Pathos is most effectively used in Jobs’s commencement speech because it lets the reader know and feel what he feels. Another use of the rhetorical device, pathos, was the idea of death which was brought up by Jobs when he had shared his experience of being the closest to death he had ever been. Steve Jobs was diagnosed with cancer, and was told he had only months to live. At this point of his life, Jobs realized how precious time can be. Following the previous quote, the commencement speech said by Steve Jobs at Stanford University, states “This was the closest I’ve been to facing death, and I hope it’s the closest I get for a few more decades. I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept”(Jobs). Death was certainly a topic many feel desolation towards. It makes you realize how precious time is and how it has to be treasured. Steve Jobs uses pathos, here, by making the reader feel anxious and sad. The audience feels anxious or stressed out, for thinking about the time they have left on

Discussion: The discussion will be focused on growth in self-confidence and looking toward creating a more positive future. A person’s self-perception has a huge impact on how they feel and what they achieve in life. Having self-confidence in oneself is the difference between having unstoppable inner strength to pursue hopes, dreams, and life goals and being scared out of your wits to be who you want to be, and to