Rhetorical Analysis Of Chang-Rae Lee's Coming Home Again

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.

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 beginning of any thought provoking essay will hook its audience using a form of pathos. “Two of his sons returned home from the battlefield whole and healthy. The third, however, came home suffering multiple seizures a day”-(Rorabacher). The quote generates sympathy within us making us yearn to see a welcoming outcome and leaving the audience hooked. Eli Hager’s article follows a similar route informing us that “The state of Missouri sent Harris to the penitentiary in Boonvilee, 250 miles from his home and baby daughter”-(Hager). Again we sympathize with the loss of a family, but not all of the articles used grievance to hook us. In the “Quiet Alarm” the audience is informed of a vaudeville performer who performed deadly stunts involving hatchets, pins, and guns on himself to generate shockwaves in the audience. From these examples we identify how our emotions lure us into these texts.

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

Alone, the use of only ethos, pathos, or logos would make for a semi-interesting story, but together, they tell a believable account of real events. Beatty makes use of all three techniques to connect with her audience and share her own story as well as hard facts that verify the events. The powerful combination of ethos, pathos, and logos conveys Beatty’s story convincingly.

A writer can relate to their audience in different ways, one of them can be pathos. Pathos is using an emotional connection with the audience to better relate too. Michael Pollan’s pathos in The Omnivores Dilemma are shown in many forms such as, humor, nostalgia, and pessimistic. By doing this Pollan is able to keep his audience’s attention and to make his case. Pollan particularly used in chapter 7 in his book.

pathos is very effective overall, it gives the reader the ability to relate to the hardship Rodriquez must endure every day. These examples are not always obvious though, small subtle uses of pathos can be just as effective, for example when Rodriguez says, “I am alone in my brown study,” even though very short, this quote evokes pity and a desire to be with Rodriguez from the reader (38). Pathos does not have to be short to be effective, when Rodriguez first describes seeing snow he says, “The light queered. The sky turned “gunmetal gray” as in books. My mouth opened. Only then, snow.” This quote is significantly longer than the first, yet it still provokes the reader's emotions (147). One feels the innocence Rodriguez displays at the new sight, similar to that of a child, and can't help but to smile. This quote gives the reader joy as they are provided with the opportunity to experience snow all over again. Both quotes, though very different, create emotional responses in the reader and help to further arguments Rodriguez makes throughout the book. Rodriguez’s appeals to pathos prove to be very effective, but work even better when paired with Rodriguez’s almost messy writing

This shows an example of pathos because of the emotions of sadness and anger

Pathos is the easiest rhetoric to use when persuading a reader because it is turning the reader`s emotion against the reader. Both the letter and the memoir can recall specific details, some of the most terrifying to remember. Wiesel says, “from the depths of the mirror, a corpse was contemplating me. The look in his eyes as he gazed at me has never left me,” (115). Night causes a

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

Throughout the article, Henderson uses multiple examples of pathos to support her main claim in the article. The readers get a good idea on how

“Sweet Home Alabama” is a news coverage that delivers insight on the effects that Alabama’s House Bill-56 had on both the illegal and legal immigrants, as well as the economy of Alabama. Media company, VICE, and reporter, Thomas Morton, take to the front lines to provide viewers with an excellent example of alignment and facts that uncover exactly how this bill has impacted those affected. They do so by interviewing several credible sources such as Doug Pollard, Police Chief of Albertville, Alabama; Mike Ball, a politician from Alabama’s tenth district; and Samuel Addy, an Economist at the University of Alabama. Gaining insight from these figures, they are able to decide the impacts this bill has had on the state of Alabama.

Many authors of books use different ways to connect to the audience. In “Lines if the sand” A short story by author Demetria Martinez I noticed that she uses pathos primarily to connect to the readers. It’s strongly showed when Martinez says “ Yet their veins were saturated with the blood of Moors and jews, african slaves and the indigenous peoples of the new world.” That is a personal connection to those particular groups of people, listing some of mankind's worst events. Showing a clear appeal to emotions of readers.

Lee made his mother feel worthless, even though, he actually “missed [his] parents greatly, [his] mother especially” (90). His parents visited him at open house and he stayed at their hotel that night. His mother showered him with loads of Korean food that could not be bought anywhere outside of Seoul. He enhances the imagery of the food, describing the flavors and taste of the food he ate. Since then, it became a ritual that his mother made food for him when he returned home from boarding

Great authors know how to make the reader become emotionally invested in their story. Margaret Atwood’s “Bread”, as well as Makeda Silvera’s “Old Habits Die Hard” are excellent examples of short stories that use literary devices to manipulate the reader’s emotion and thus, enhance the story. To achieve this, the authors take advantage of the setting, and writing structure of their short stories.