Summary Of Flavio's Home

In the passage, Rodriguez’s use of pathos is evident in many places. In the first paragraph alone he uses it when he states that “Mexico play the tragic part; California plays the role

The authors use of pathos in the essay is well planned and is used effectively. The see proof, the reader would have to look no further than the title of the essay: The Logic of Stupid Poor People. The word ‘stupid’ can be seen as a strong word towards someone or a group of people which stirs up emotion into some readers before they even start reading. It grabs interests and makes people want to hear what she has to say. When the author recalls of her past of being raised in a poor family, the author could also be using her stories to make the reader feel sympathy for her and understand the pressure that poor people are put under for them to be able to be considered for certain benefits and help in general. Another example of the author trying to appeal to the readers emotional side was how she concludes the essay with disregarding and opinions others have about the choice of poor people if they were not poor themselves. She states, “You have no idea what you would do if

Understanding that there is a big separation between rich and poor, Gordon Parks was in for a rude awakening in ‘Flavios Home’ when he came face to face with a family doing all they can to survive. Parks comes across a young fellow named Flavio da Silva who was struggling to carry water in a tin over his head and is immediately intrigued to learn more about him. Having an assignment over poverty, Parks took the chance to get better insight by following Flavio home. Recreating the environment and interactions he had creates an awareness that is able to give those not in nor around those in poverty to make a change. Parks goes beyond just going through the events by using descriptive words that allows readers to accompany him.

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 is another word for sympathy. In the speech “People and Peace, not Profits and War,” Chisholm states in lines 5-8, “As a teacher, and as a woman, I do not think I will ever understand what kind of values can be involved in spending $9 billion -- and more, I am sure -- on elaborate, unnecessary, and impractical weapons when several thousand disadvantaged children in the nation’s capital get nothing” (39). Chisholm uses pathos to show her feelings about the children. In his Vietnam speech, Martin Luther King Jr. states, “We have destroyed their two most cherished institutions: the family and the village. We have destroyed their land and their crops. We have cooperated in the crushing of the nation’s only non communist revolutionary political force, the unified Buddhist Church. We have supported the enemies of the peasants of Saigon. We have corrupted their women and children and killed their men” (156). King uses pathos so that the readers agree with his opinions on the Vietnam War. In “Let America be America Again” by Langston Hughes, he calls himself the farmer, the worker, the negro, and the people (1). Hughes wants people to realize how unfortunate he is and he wants people to sympathize with his feelings. Pathos triggers the reader’s emotions. They begin to sympathize with whoever is displaying their feelings. Authors may use this device to help the readers see the situation in their point of

He first uses pathos when he talked about how many animals are euthanized each year and how those animals are used for food (Foer). By using pathos it either brings out the audience’s sympathy or anger trying to convince them to make a difference. In his article he is trying to appeal to the audience emotional side to convince them eating animals is wrong. The second time he uses pathos is when he talks about how the Hawaiians hold the dog’s nose shut ¬¬in order to conserve the blood (Foer). When he talks about other cultures traditions, he is trying to show his readers how disgusting and horrifying other traditions are no matter which animal is being killed. The third time he uses pathos in his article is when he talks about a Filipino recipe. “First, kill a medium-sized dog, then burn the fur over a hot fire (Foer). While reading this sentence most animal lovers would feel horrified at the mental image running through their mind. His whole point of using the Filipino recipe was to show people how other cultures use different animals, but he mostly wanted people to see if the recipe called for chicken, cow, or even horse most people would be okay with the recipe. Pathos is a good tool to use in ones article because emotion is a good way to capture the audience to try and make them take a stand on the issue at

He likes to reference the 2008 presidential campaign and depending on the political opinions of the reader it can conjure up many different emotions in some reader. By using pathos he gets people more interested in the topic of the article by involving their emotions and making it easy to relate to through the use of recent events. He uses an example of John McCain choosing not respond to rumors which he later explains is the wrong way to go about combatting a rumor. In the article he writes,“When John McCain, during the 2000 Republican primaries, was plagued with rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate child, for the most part he opted not to engage with them at all” (513). The fact that this example can be agreed with or disagreed with can bring emotions along from the reader.

This rhetorical device helps the reader understand what the author is feeling by conveying certain emotions. In Sullivan’s essay, the emotion that she was trying to convey was of how she wanted to be indolent and not go to a funeral because she did not see the importance of it. “I was 16 and trying to get out of going to calling hours for Miss Emerson, my old fifth grade math teacher” (Sullivan). Even though she did not want to go to the funeral, she ended up going. Twenty years later, the teacher’s mother still remembers the author’s name. This anecdote brings the emotion of homesickness and melancholy. Pathos can help the author connect with the reader by displaying the emotions they felt at that time of the

Pathos is used in order to link the essay with the reader’s emotions and ethos is used to show the writers moral character. For example, pathos is used when Kozol speaks to a student of a Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel?...I think they’d be relieved.” (Kozol 205) This part of the essay really made me feel sad for this girl who lives in a society where she has grown up feeling like now one cares about her or others of her race.

Pathos is a communication technique used most often in rhetoric, and in literature, film and other narrative. Pathos is a appeal to the emotions of the person, and elicits feelings that already reside in them. Pathos is also a communication technique used most often in rhetoric, and in literature, film and movies. Disney has perfected the art of using pathos to popularize their many hit movies. Essentially, Disney plays on the feelings of their audience to create emotional connections between them and the characters. Some movies for an example would be snow white, cinderella, lion king, tarzan, the little mermaid, beauty and the beast,

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.

Flavio lived in a place full of poverty, the home was located on the outsides of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; the shack had its walls beaten down, holes in them, and patched up. Flavio's family had to retrieve the water that they would use to clean the rice, then they would reuse it to wash the sisters feet, later they would put soap in the water and bathed the children. The siblings did not get along; they would constantly fight, but it would be when one child got a taste of food before anyone else. Flavio’s parents had to work a lot in order to have enough money for all of the children; therefore, they did not have enough

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:

In the beginning of the speech, George C. Marshall presents his speech using Pathos. He gives an emotional start to his speech and says things like he’s grateful and touched to have them there with him. “I am profoundly grateful, touched by the great distinction and honor and great compliment accorded me by the authorities of Harvard this morning.” This explains the “emotion” and “feel” part of pathos. He started out with an emotionally so he can convince and grab the audience’s attention.