In the novel Clockwork Prince, the author always has you on the end of your seat. Cassandra Clare does this by adding romance and nail-biting events. For example, Jem proposes to Tessa, but Tessa’s heart is split into two. As a reader, you can only make assumptions of who she will choose. A cliff-hanging event usually occurs after a battle when characters get gravely injured. You don’t know if the characters will die from the wounds or if they will live. The author also does an absolute job of making you love and feel apologetic for the characters. Clare does this by getting you attached to the characters and then have you read about past events that were misfortunate. This technique is known as pathos because it arouses pity for the characters.
In the Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls, Walls uses pathos to make her point. Pathos is a rhetorical device that appeals to your emotions. “When other girls came in and threw away their lunch bags in the the garbage pails, I’s go retrieve them. I couldn’t get over the way kids tossed out all this perfectly good food: apples, hard-boiled eggs, packages of peanut-butter crackers, sliced pickles, half-pint cartons of milk, cheese sandwiches with just one bite taken out because the kid didn’t like the pimentos in cheese,” (Walls 173). Walls uses this device frequently in her book to appeal to the reader’s emotions when she talks about her family or her personal experiences. This quote shows how everyday, Walls constantly had to scavenge for food. This tugs at your heart because you couldn’t imagine
In The False Prince by Jennifer A. Nielson, a young orphan boy named Sage resides in Carthya. He is known for his rebellious, defiant, and thieving nature. In Carthya, a monarchy government is in place meaning, the kingdom is ruled by the king and his family. Apart of the king’s court of advisers, is nobleman Bevin Conner, who collects Sage and three other orphan boys (Tobias, Roden, and Latamer) for one secret mission: impersonating the long lost Prince Jaron. While Latamer is murdered after trying to leave, the other boys must compete to be chosen as the new king. As a nobleman, Conner is among the few people that know that the king, queen, and their eldest son were recently murdered. He also knows that Carthya is on the brink of war due
The next sample of pathos in the story is when the author uses heart-wrenching vocabulary. During the marketplace scene, when the men are being taken to work at labor camps, the elderly people are forced to stay back. This is an excellent example of when the narrator uses this type of vocabulary . The narrator uses words like “disobey” and ”labor camps”. It also gives the reader chilling quotes such as, “This crowd was silent. In a way, it resembled a rally- but it was different from that too. I don't know what it was exactly. One only knows that we suddenly stopped and my sister began to tremble, and then I caught the trembling, and she said: "Let’s run away.”...” These phrases and vocab terms display the appeal of pathos very well, it makes
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.
In the novel saving francesca by Melina Marchetta it shows a range of techniques authors use to engage the audience like conflict,events,setting.
example of pathos because it plays with peoples emotions and they can more relate to this and
But there are times the author used pathos to make the audience realize what they have become, and what they are missing out on. One example of this was when Carr used a quote from an interview: “When culture drives changes in the way that we engage our brains, it creates DIFFERENT brains. THEIR HEAVY USE HAS NEUROLOGICAL CONSEQUENCES.” When Carr uses all caps, it implies to the audience that this is something they should pay attention to because it is important. It also installs fear in the reader, because something that we do every day such as going on our phones could have actual neurological consequences. Another use of pathos was when Carr stated the aim of Google. “To get users in and out quickly…” Carr goes on to explain that “As people spend more time and do more things online, they see more ads, and they disclose this information about themselves…and Google rakes in more money”. These understated comments grant the audience to consider and be more mindful of what they are doing. The author incorporates in some awkward moments when he talks about artificial intelligence. The creator of Google is quoted saying “the ultimate search engine is something as smart as people or more intelligent. Certainly if you had… an artificial brain that was smarter than your brain, you’d be better off.” Carr makes a comment about how unsettling it is to think about our minds being supplemented with artificial intelligence. This appeals to pathos because the audience has a firm impulse to agree with Carr because it is uncomfortable to think about a computer replacing our
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.
First let’s talk about how Sherman Alexie uses pathos to appeal to the reader’s emotions. In his writing when he is using this technique he says, “I read anything that had words and paragraphs. I read with equal parts joy and desperation. I loved those books, but I also knew that love had only one purpose. I was trying to save my life.” (Alexie). This quote is successful because his word choice is helping to make the reader feel emotionally attached to the reasoning behind why he is doing what he is doing. Also, he says towards the end of his writing, “I refused to fail. I was smart. I was arrogant. I was lucky.” (Alexie) He does a good job with his word choice in these short sentences. It makes the reader engaged in the writing because he is being assertive, and he knows what he wants. Which what he wants is the reader to understand his point that something needed to be done and he was going to be the one to do it. Both of these quotes that I have pulled from his text reaches the readers on an emotional level because he makes it seem that knowing how to read saved his life and now that he knows how to read and
ii. Topic Sentence – Pathos is referred to as the literature’s emotional appeal to the audience’s senses or imagination.
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.
shows that authors use multiple techniques to help the reader relate and further empathize with the characters. Empathy helps us better connect to the world and people around us, and often times sparks the need for change within people. The most effective of these tactics is the use of appeals. These examples further prove the argument that authors use appeals such as ethos, logos, and pathos to evoke empathy in their
Every woman would want to be Lady Marguerite Blakeney, née St Just. Having recently made her debut at the Comedie Francois, Marguerite married Sir Percy Blakeney alias the Scarlet Pimpernel. Charming, clever, beautiful, with childlike eyes and a delicate face, Marguerite captures everyone’s attention. Yet Marguerite is portrayed as a stereotypical woman who is weak, impulsive, and whose identity revolves around her husband.
Not only do the roles of the characters compel a reader, they also illustrate the
Pathos can be defined as an appeal to an emotion of the audience, and is ubiquitous within the game. From the second and third line of the story -if the hormones option is chosen- the mother asks, “how is that going for you” and “are you finding it hard to deal with the changes.” Those two simple lines invoke the reader's emotion, flashing them back to when they were young and their mother would ask them a plethora of questions every afternoon. Another potent use of pathos is available if the audience selects the therapist choice. In that option the mother simply states, “I started seeing a therapist. You’ve had lots of time to think about this, now I need to.” Those two simple sentences can tug on the heart of the audience by portraying the mother as sad and broken, but perhaps willing to try and understand her child’s decisions. By incorporating pathos into those two examples, and various others, Koppas is able to draw the audience into her story and persuade the reader to support her