Elizabeth Gilbert's Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear

Book Arrangement: Elizabeth Gilbert’s Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear contains six parts. These parts are, Part I: Courage, Part II: Enchantment, Part III: Permission, Part IV: Persistence, Part V: Trust, and Part VI: Divinity. Each part is split into smaller chapter-like sections, but they are not numbered. Following these six parts are a conclusion and acknowledgments.

Book Context: Elizabeth Gilbert begins her book with Part I: Courage and explains what exactly the term creative living means: it does not always mean creating art, but it means doing whatever a person wants in life and what makes them the happiest, and Gilbert explains that people can be creative, no matter their age. People need courage to go out and live their best lives, but they also must learn to live with their fear, according to Gilbert. Fear is an

There is not much need for logos in a self-help book, especially since Gilbert is writing about what she knows best-- creativity. Pathos and ethos are much more consistently present throughout the book.

Pathos- Gilbert brings pathos into the book through the stories she tells that relate to the subject on which she is speaking. She makes the reader feel what she was feeling at that moment in time. One example is in Part2: Enchantment when Gilbert describes a novel that she began writing, only to get sidetracked for several years: she tried and tried to make the book work once she had the time, but it did not flow the same as before. The reader can feel Gilbert’s persistence to finish the book, and her defeat when she realizes that the magic is gone.

Ethos- Ethos is far more present in this particular book than logos and pathos. Gilbert’s ethos is clear through the fact that she has experienced several of the things that she is talking about here. She tells several of her own stories throughout the book, or tells the stories of people that she has known at one point in