Emily Matchar Does a fairly good job at using pathos in her article "Why i cant stop reading Mormon housewife blogs". The first thing she did was show people's experiences and feelings from the Mormon housewife blogs. These quotes and remarks show how these blogs make other people feel, how it uplifts them. Showing how these women feel, make you feel those same things too, bringing in emotion.
She shows how today's homes are hard on so many people, How many people don't find joy in family life. she explains that seeing people find happiness is a ray of light for everyone else. She explains that it makes people wonder if they shouldn't go back to the way things were. This is a current issue that a lot of people have different emotions about, so it brings more emotion into the paper.
I think the most effective things she did though was write it the way she did. She didn't write it like a fancy paper, with only scientific terms. She wrote the article with really visual words, words where you read it and you see images in your head. Words can have an effect on emotion, but i find visual things really bring on the most emotion, and the way she writes really let you see things. They make you understand how she feels and bump up the emotion even more. She did a good job, it was an enjoyable paper.
I agree with everything you said! I really loved the way she wrote to her audience and I felt the article was very pathos orientated.
ReplyDeleteYeah, she wrote it more like a blog post than an essay. I liked how you brought up the issue being current and how that influenced Pathos. that does have a huge effect on emotions
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