Computer Ethos Pathos Logos

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To start this off this to me was such a funny article, I love how much he believed in the fact that there was not one reason he needed to have a computer in his home. When in fact a computer could have probably made his life a lot better in some ways. When he was talking about the advertisements that he sees on TV about how they are trying to get struggling farming families to buy computers to solve their problems or when he talks about schools are getting computers instead of getting more books shows him talking about ethos. He is giving examples that he sees about computers everyday on commercials. Another ethos would be when he says that computers are going to be just as common as TV sets. Even though he doesn’t have one of those either he doesn’t find any use in a new computer because all of the examples he has been told about aren’t really making him feel that he needs one enough. …show more content…

He is trying to tell people and himself why he doesn’t need one and how it would only affect him negatively. He asks himself the question, What would a computer cost me? And knows right away that it’s more than he would ever want to spend on one. He keeps telling himself that he would be blowing his money if he were to get a new computer because the one he has does the job and a new one is just a waste. Then pathos comes into play where he starts getting his emotions evolved. He talks a little more about why he doesn’t want to get a computer another reason being that if he got a new computer he would have to get rid of his old computer meaning he would have to get rid of his wife, the one that helped him and was his critic. He feels that he would give up something he treasures and that is enough for him to not want to get something new or that might benefit him. He doesn’t want to fool himself into thinking that writing with a computer is easier than writing with a

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