Rhetorical Analysis Of The C Word In The Hallways

Pathos is the written art of persuasion that is used to invoke emotion, and action in an audience. The CDC effectively pulls the emotions out of its audience with the picture of innocent little children displayed with a very troublesome disorder (ADHD, 2013). The author reaches within, to invoke the audience into action. Invoking emotions such as pity, sympathy, sadness, and even anger, which are certain to get people to set up and take notice. These photos of the children effectively use emotions to show how the disorder of ADHD works. There is one photo that speaks the loudest of the disorder of ADHD. That photo shows the distraught look of a child, as his parents are talking with the doctor (ADHD, 2013). The CDC very effectively caught the scene with its camera lens, capturing that distraught look in the child’s eyes, helping the audience see the actions of ADHD. The smile on the face of the parents and the doctor, will bring the audience into a sense of comfort and hope, pertaining to the

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.

Throughout the article Guindlen uses pathos in various forms, but she mainly enforces it on readers towards alcohol abuse. She uses pathos appeal to aware readers on

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

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

In Truth’s speech, she used the rhetorical strategy of pathos to appeal to the audience’s emotions and feelings. An example of Truth’s use of pathos is “Nobody ever helps me into carriages or over mud-puddle or gives me any best place!” (Truth 6-7). When Truth

In “The C Word in the Hallway”, author, Anna Quindlen expresses her pleas to reach out and end the neglect of teen struggles. Bullying, break-ups, isolation, family issues, academics, and more could result as contributing factors to the hardships of teenagers. Unfortunately, “role models” setting the examples, overlook the fatal outcomes of these hardships. The poor example taught is to mask our struggles and toughen through them. This masking method can only be effective for so long before one cracks. In her article regarding the uprising of mental health issues found in teenagers, Anna Quindlen calls to action on parents, educators, and politicians to emphasize the importance of recognizing teenage hardships, so the teenagers can too recognize

Pathos is the writers attempt to appeal to the audience emotions. For instance, “In June, a professor protecting himself with a pseudonym wrote an essay for Vox describing how gingerly he now has to teach. ‘“I’m a Liberal Professor, and My Liberal Students Terrify Me,”’ the headline said” (Lukianoff and Haidt). The authors appeal to emotion paints a picture in the reader’s mind, further opening their eyes to make them feel how the professor was feeling. Also, naming the article “The Coddling of the American Mind” was a great was to represent how the problem was being addressed. The use of the word “coddling” reflected the way colleges were treating their students like babies. Enforcing trigger warnings to protect the students are not helping them for the future. This appeals to pathos because the audience gets a glimpse of what the after effect of “babying” has on

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 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

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.

Throughout my mother’s letter, she constantly employs the usage of pathos to get the point across that she loves my family and I. My mother uses phrases that appeal strongly to human emotion such as, “mommy loves you” and “you are my sissy”. My mother may not have consciously knew that she was employing pathos, however, she knew that her audience wanted to hear her tell them that she loved them since they wouldn’t be hearing it for a while, so my mother gave the audience what they wanted. Throughout my journals, I analyze the repeated usage of pathos and through my analysis I discover more in depth how and why pathos is used so often.

For example, Morley says, “The man who is really, thoroughly, and philosophically slothful is the only thoroughly happy man. It is the happy man who benefits the world.” This shows that he is encouraging his readers that being lazy is the meaning of happiness and is the only path to being happy. Those two sentences persuade the readers who are not lazy to reconsider being lazy if they want to be happy in life. Another example of when Morley appeals to pathos is when he says, “People respect laziness.” Not only is this sentence effective because of its short length, but it makes the readers reconsider their view on laziness. Because Morley uses the word “people,” the readers don’t want to be excluded from that description so they might try to think about respecting lazy

Teenagers are still growing and learning. Sometimes we forget that they are making choices that can affect their whole life. Yes, we are here to teach them and to guide them in making decisions that will help shape their future. Are they going to make mistakes? Are they going to regret some of their choices? Are they going to wish that they had listened to their parents at times that they didn’t? I’m pretty sure that we made mistakes as teenagers and decisions that we wish we could change. I know that some made worse choices than others but, we have all made poor choices at one time or another even as adults. I definitely feel that

Her use of pathos allows her to connect with the audience on an emotional level and helps drive home her argument.