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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

For example, when Dickens states “The accused, who was (and who knew he was) being mentally hanged, beheaded, and quartered, by everybody there, neither flinched from the situation, nor assumed any theatrical air in it. He was quiet and attentive….” on page forty-seven, it causes the reader to visualize what the accused person is seeing as people are staring at him in the courtroom. It also causes the reader to feel and understand the accused person’s emotions and pain as the trial begins due to him understanding that everyone in the court room see him as the guilty

The literary devices that is consistently used is connotation. The authors use of words such as; syntax(line 3), spring(line

The novel that I chose was Spoiled by Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan. The main characters include Molly, Brooke, and Brick Berlin. This book is about a sixteen year old girl named Molly Dix, who, after the death of her mother, moves to Los Angeles, California to live with her biological father, Hollywood movie star, Brick Berlin and her half-sister Brooke. Molly isn’t used to living the life of a rich girl, so when she arrives, she is both excited and terrified; not only that, she’s meeting her dad for the very first time. Brooke welcomes Molly to high fashion and fame with an overwhelming dose of “sisterly love”. But in this town, no one is ever what they seem. I think that Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan built the story in a way that would

The author uses rhetorical devices in her essay to develop the main idea throughout the paragraphs. She explains her feelings towards loneliness by using allusions and anecdotes. Fox example, she brings up a memory in her past. The boxcar children would be an example of an allusion.(Par 9) These methods all eventually lead up to the author’s point of view, and the main idea of course.

This book is called Forged by Fire, by Sharon M. Drapper. In the book Gerald has to grow up with many challenges. The book takes place in the Hazelwood area. Gerald is a three year old boy who lives with his single mom. Gerald's mom is a major drug addict, she doesn't really take good care of Gerald. If he were to have a “accident”, she would make him keep it in his pants or not change him till the end of the day as a lesson to him. Gerald has many problems to deal with in this book, but the main one is having to deal with Jordan, his mom's husband who abuses all 3 of them, Monique (mom), Gerald, and Angel (sister). But worst of all Gerald has to deal with the fact that Jordan is sexually abusing Angel.

(Krakauer 102). The author uses this very emotional quote to show how heartbreakingly sad Chris’s death was as he was held dear to heart by many. In the end the author used pathos to show that Chris meant a great deal to so many, as well as impacted multiple people's lives and his death was a tragedy to

Elie Wiesel uses the rhetorical appeal of pathos in his speech that which he states “Indifference is not the beginning, it is an end. And therefore, indifference is always the friend of the enemy, for it benefits the aggressor--never the victim, whose pain magnifies when he or she feels forgotten.” By saying this Elie impacts the reader and his audience on an emotional level. It makes them think about how people in that situation may have felt, also how you might of felt if you were presented with that same situation.

In monument 14,(2012) a novel written by Emmy Laybourne, 14 children ranging from kindergarten to upperclassmen in high school, become tragically trapped inside of their local greenway grocery store. However, despite their different social classes they are able to put aside their differences to unite for survival. Jake Simonson is a senior and football star. However, Dean Grieder is a 16 year old nerd. Dean is a quiet kid who sits in the back of the classroom and you barely know he’s there. The two both have something in common, Astrid Heyman. Jake, being at the top of the social status can have any girl he desires. However, for Dean that isn’t the case. Dean has been crushing on Astrid as long as he can remember, but has almost no chance

The next example of pathos could also be repetition. “This is a breathtaking pace, and such a pace cannot help but create new ills as it dispels old, new ignorance, new problems, new dangers. Surely the opening vistas of space promise high costs and hardships, as well as high reward” (1). It is depicted from this quote that Kennedy feels anxious yet thrilled for this

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Vanishing Girls by Lauren Oliver, is a romantic and mysterious type book. Two girls, who used to be best friends, get in a car accident. It wasn’t deadly, but one was seriously hurt. After recovery, their world seemed to fall apart. They were farther apart than they had ever been, and can’t even talk to each other without getting angry. Next, their parents get a divorce, and the dad gets a new girlfriend. Their mom has to take sleeping and eating pills or she would go crazy. In this book it seems like nothing is going right for them.

Imagine finding out that one of your parents has a whole other family. This happened to the main character in the book Two Summers by Aimee Friedman. The main character in this book is Summer Everett. Summer is sixteen years old and her parents got a divorce when she was eleven. Ever since her parents split her dad has lived across the ocean in France and she lives with her mom in upstate New york. This story takes place in the French countryside and upstate New York. Summer’s whole life changes in one summer. A conflict in this story is when Summer finds out that she has a secret half sister named Eloise. In this book Summer is going through her fathers sketches and finds a sketch of a girl in a poppy field which she thought was her, but it turns out it was her secret sister Eloise.

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