Section 1 Everybody needs a place to rest/ Everybody wants to have a home/ Don't make no difference what nobody says/. Ain't nobody like to be alone- Bruce Springsteen, “Hungry Heart” In 1980, Bruce Springsteen released a song called “Hungry Heart”. This song is a very gloomy in a sense. Bruce tells us a story about man who impulsively leaves his family and moves away. These lyrics “Everybody needs a place to rest/Everybody wants to have a home/ Don’t make no difference what nobody says/ Ain’t nobody like to be alone/ tells us that the man has regretted what he had done and wants to be back home. A very emotional song and the message I got from these quoted lyrics is that nobody wants to be lonely or alone. Some people hide behind their …show more content…
Every song he sang was different then what he usual performs. These songs told stories of sadness and his views on life itself. Some of these songs turned out to be big hits, and certainly made his listeners to think. This album is just as emotional as any novel or film. The narrators in the songs made us feel what they felt, especially in the “The River”. Dystopia Dystopia is considered to be an imaginary place or a state where everything in it is unpleasant or bad. A text that we have covered in this class that relates to dystopia is “Rumble Fish”. This story deals with characters who are struggling through their lives. The city and everything around them seems to low scale. Rusty James goes through his life trying to be like his older brother by fighting, drinking, smoking, and joining gangs. To me their lives seem to never get any better and are always stuck in different life problems. Pathos Pathos can be used to engage a reader or viewers feelings. They tend to be qualities that make people feel sympathy or sadness. Typically an appeal to pathos causes an audience to respond and identify what the writer feels. In The Shootist, John Wayne exemplifies pathos throughout the movie. Western movies are full of pathos that deals with characters facing life and death situations. In John Wayne’s case, death was coming to him whether he liked it or not with
Pathos is the rhetorical device where the speaker emotionally motivates their audience. Henry uses pathos as a way to arouse fear and hatred of the British, but also to spark a devotion and willingness to fight for their “country.” The use of pathos allows for the colonists to feel Henry’s patriotism and his sense of pride to fight against the British
I found in the play “Leaving Home” that I could find the use of pathos in various spots. I noticed the definition “an expression or utterance that evokes sadness or sympathy, esp. in a work of literature; a description, passage, or scene of this nature” more than the others. In this text, I could really see the use of pathos being used by the emotionally-loaded language, the emotional examples, the figurative language, and the emotional tone. The actors had a lot going on in just the short time of the play.
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.
Within The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls uses the rhetorical device pathos to help connect with her readers and make it so they can better comprehend her story and the difficulties she often had to deal with. “Mom said Dad was never the same after Mary Charlene died. He started having dark moods, staying out late and coming home drunk and losing jobs (Walls,28)”. This passage is a prime example of pathos seeing
Pathos consists in arousing the emotions of the listeners and directing those emotions in an action that should be taken. In order to use pathos in my speech, I could reference personal experiences. For example if I were having a conversation with someone who just lost a family member, I could make a connection with them by telling them about a similar loss in my
Everyone saw him as a low life and never bothered to hear his side because he was Chris Chambers, a son of an alcoholic drug addict, so he never bothered to argue no more. But on the last line, he said “I just wish I could go to some place where nobody knows me” this simple phrase is also another way of saying “I wish nobody would judge me with my family. They don’t know the real me”
An example of pathos that was used is where it says, “And so a quiet, respectful, humble Negro who had the unmitigated temerity to ‘feel sorry’ for a white woman has had to put his word against two white peoples.” I know that this quote is pathos because Atticus is trying to explain Tom so that he seems harmless by saying that he is quiet, humble, and respectful. He also tries to get people to feel bad so they know Tom isn’t guilty. This part was better in the movie because of how they put the camera on Atticus and his facial expressions changed. It really makes you start to feel bad that Tom is going through all of the
The next element in the rhetorical situation is pathos. Pathos is defined as connecting the author and the reader using emotion. Pathos is more reader dependent than the other elements. Pathos helps the writer know to know their audience and who they are intending to write for. Connecting to the audience using pathos is a strong way to get the support of the reader. The audience needs to be moved by what they’re reading. Without pathos, the writer won’t be able to properly connect to their audience.
All of the songs on this album relay different messages to listeners. Most songs contain a lot of pathos, call to action and more. Pathos is really prominent in certain songs such as Sorry, Formation, and Freedom. An excerpt from Sorry says: “Now you want to say you 're sorry/Now you want to call me crying/Now you gotta see me wildin '/Now I 'm the one that 's lying/And I don 't feel bad about it/It 's exactly what you get.” This displays the emotions after getting out of a relationship or during the struggles of it. Other lyrics from this song that display this
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 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
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.
Depression is another disorder that caused him to feel like he has no one even though he is surrounded by others. From the website American Psychiatric Association, depression is “ a common and serious medical illness that negatively affects how you feel, the way you think, and how you act.” The man’s disorder isn't happiness but has negative feelings and negative hopes. Sadness has occurred in his life for so long he feels like he won’t ever get past it. The man’s lack of energy caused him to feel in a place of emptiness.
The song opens with the lyrics, “What's wrong with the world Mama, people livin like they ain’t got no Mama, I think the whole world’s addicted to Drama, only attracted to the things that will bring them trauma” For me the lyric about “No Mama“ The people of today’s society don’t know how to behave properly. We lack knowledge and understanding of the world. We don’t pay attention to anyone but ourselves. We don't know right from wrong. We are completely oblivious to what this world is turning into and all we are doing are things that hurt ourselves and others. This lyric about having “No Mama” saddens me as there are a lot of people out there in this world who do not have a mother to guide them on the right path. We need a mother figure in our life because having a mother teaches us basic life lessons that allow us to survive and be a good person. Such as to always say please and thank-you, respect people, be kind and love your neighbour. I can not relate to not having a mother figure in my life as I have had the same amazing mother my whole life. She has taught me from the moment I was born, to treat everyone equally, be kind, and respect and love everyone. To this
In this competitive world, everyone is attempting to earn more money than others and due to this race they are losing their original purpose which is to have healthy relationships with others and enjoy their life. Individuals these days very much indulge in themselves and are not spending adequate time with others. Research performed by scientists showed that isolation is one of the contributing causes of depression and other mental health disorders. People have begun to appreciate money and fame more than their own happiness which is causing their life to be empty and meaningless. In the poem “The Desert Places” by Robert Frost the narrator encounters loneliness and isolation and talks about how it’s affecting his mental well-being