In 2020, American author, activist, and podcast host Glennon Doyle wrote a memoir titled ‘Untamed’. In this excerpt of her memoir, Doyle writes about the time, when she and her wife took their kids to the zoo and watched the Cheetah Run. As the cheetah - named Tabitha - was done with her run, Doyle began to reflect on Tabitha’s situation, and how it felt familiar. She then goes on to write about, how she fell in love with a woman, and married her. Afterwards, she reflects on her childhood, and when the cages began to form. The excerpt ends with Doyle’s escape from her society-built cage, a lot of rhetorical questions, and a summarize of her journey to finding her true self, by breaking free from societies expectations. Identity, and discovering who we truly are - despite of the expectations put upon us - is a struggle we are all familiar with. But why do we bend to societies expectations? And how can we break free of them? This is what …show more content…
82-83). This simile has the purpose of comparing her mother’s response, to a significant sentence in a novel. This underlines, a very important moment in Doyle’s life. It was the moment when the worlds expectations began to direct, Doyle’s identity. Doyle draws up a list of the cages she was put in at the age of ten: “These are the feelings you are allowed to express. This is how a woman should act… This is the kind of life you are supposed to want” (ll. 93-99). These are the expectations a young girl - like Doyle - had to follow, to fit into societies standards. By listing these expectations, we can relate to how she has felt, because many of us - not just girls - probably relates to that list. This evokes different emotions in us, which is a use of the appeal form pathos. She establishes her ethos, by using, her own personal experiences, which makes her viewpoint more credible.
Applying pathos with phrases such as, “my son,” and repetitive “you’s.” Thus giving the impression that the advice she gives, is all aimed toward the well being of her son. She uses immensely powerful adjectives, like “Justice….honor” and “Manly virtue.” Adams emphasizes
The audience can get a better idea of what these women felt with Rubenstein’s use of vivid language. Appealing to pathos is needed for a good article. It helps the author make a
Pathos is an emotional appeal that is meant to persuade the audience through appealing to their emotions. Tim Felliss make use of pathos to beseech and solicit sympathy from the audience thereby making them feel what he wants them to feel. “I was sitting in the back of my used minivan…when I decided I was going to commit suicide.” At this point, the audience is silent and very sorry for why the author would kill himself. However, they feel relieved when he said that he had found a reason to take his finger off the trigger.
Pathos is meant to force the audience into truly believing the author, because an emotional connection should develop a deep bond between the writer and audience. However, Hewson blatantly and without deep regards, feeling or passion towards what she wrote. Because of impersonal text glaring across the audience's electronic device, the reader has no opportunity to understand the lengths at which the author would go to to prove her point. Hewson’s writing is rather bitter, however not in an emotionally bitter type of way, but instead an indifferent or apathetic type of way. Going so far as to say “the present tendency to characterise questions about abortion ethics in terms of concerns about fetuses, or even fetal ‘rights’, tends to sideline women and the realities of women's lives” (Hewson) considerably undermines her own ability to persuade an audience.
In the book, Unbound by Ann E. Burg takes place in the 1860's just before the Civil War in 1861. However, the book focuses on the Grace and her family being slaves for Master Allen and the Missus. As well as all the steps they took to get to their freedom in the swamp. However, throughout the book they ongoing theme of regardless of race, we are all human is very significant. Especially in just the first couple chapters when Grace is talking about her story in her own point of view.
(Source F). The speaker uses pathos here by showing her independent past as a woman and comparing in to society’s standard of a woman. Rather than participating in the whole ‘damsel in distress’ idea, Sojourner defied this expectation and proved that women can hold their own. Sojourner Truth proves that woman’s dependence on a man does not define their worth as a person. Women today are applauded for their sovereignty; an independent woman is someone everybody yearns to become.
Pathos is a way to appeal the audience with emotions. She tries to grab the reader when she introduces the article with a picture that states, “for undocumented women who experience sexual harassment or abuse, speaking up puts them at risk of arrest or detention, writes LeVoy [Juan Carlos Llorca/AP]” (Women’s Rights). The image she uses puts a visual in the audience’s mind and that fears other women because they don’t want the same thing to happen to them. However, this image does not show where it had come from and why might this woman be in a detention center.
One would say that this whole say was written with a pathos mindset. The reader who is reading this story is probably related to the entire essay and that’s how Mr. Pollon used pathos. Mr. Pollon has some great information in this
Using pathos plays a major role in gaining sympathy of readers and getting the reader into that historical event even if it will not be as it was. As many writers, Doyle uses children as a prominent element for pathos because readers always feel empathy for what is happening to any child. A good example is the case of the children of Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana who took a brick-built bungalow as a shelter from the militia. Doyle expresses the fear of the children while they were looking at soldiers who wanted to kill their parents through a tiny window. In this case, the reader feels a deep grief because those children should not see or encounter such situations.
Powerful pathos is established at the beginning with the first paragraph. Ms. Hamilton is introduced as an injured factory worker whose accident left her unable to work (par 1). This introduction sets the scene of melancholy to probably make the reader feel like the people who live in poverty due to their unfortunate circumstances. In the eight paragraph, perhaps the most humane, basic, and hardest hitting use of pathos is the statement, ““Poor” is a four letter word”. This puts all readers on the same level to show compassionate and the motivation to support and heal the poor.
Pathos “means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions” (Bernanke, 2010). The language allowed for pathos as it was emotive, seen through the rhetorical questions, which reflected the vulnerability, sensitivity and fear of the author and thus, replicants as a whole. The overarching theme of a morally questionable issue enhances the personalisation of the reader. This is because the target audience was Replicants and thus, the theme speaks to the issues they are subjected to. Lastly, pathos is illustrated in the creative piece through the personalised stories, which aim to, along with the rhetorical questions, evoke an emotional
The father, who was once straightlaced and hardworking, but had now turned into a drunk, and only two of the eleven children had any hope in life. She uses this as an example of what overpopulation can do to a family and the importance of birth control. This quote, displaying the lives of torn families, is an example of Pathos. Pathos is illustrated in this quote through the sadness and disparity that the people in the stories face and the dark future that they have.
Kelley’s diction adds a tone to the piece and allows her to get her message across with helping the reader understand more deeply . Kelley’s use of imagery, appeal to logic,
By doing this, Doyle states what many humans do, close off themselves to others. He argues against this later in the paragraph, therefore building an action to argue against which helps convey his message. As a result of using extended metaphors, Doyle builds his message by using qualities of living things to argue for his
Throughout her essay, Pollitt discredits several difference feminists by stating the flaws in their claims. The claims difference feminist make are such as the idea that all women are nurturers. To enhance her argument, Pollitt uses three rhetorical strategies: pathos, logos, and ethos. Pathos is the emotional appeal that writers use to persuade a reader. Pathos shows the emotion of the author which transfer