Ethos Pathos Logos

Fasting is a way of life for most people. For them it is a way to preserve certain things, which helps them enjoy them better. To make life enjoyable people should fast more often, so that they can enjoy the simpler things in life and live a fuller life. The people that know this the best are hunters, and sailors, because they have to give up aspects of their life on a daily basis. For example, sailors have to give up their family when they go out for a voyage but when they return and see their family the feeling is intensified because they have lived without them for a while. Fasting also helps people understand and appreciate the value of things in their lives. The audience that this article was intended for is everyone because the author is talking about a very tame subject and almost everyone can interpret the article. The purpose of the article is to try and

convince people to fast more things more often so that people can enjoy certain aspects of their life better.

Device:
• Ethos: “Fasting is an act of homage to the majesty of appetite,” this is an appeal to Ethos because to most religion's fasting is a moral principal.

In Christianity, for example, they fast every Friday to show their loyalty to God. This informs the reader that fasting is moral principal that many people have followed and that it can make life more pleasant.

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• Pathos:“Sailors and travelers enjoyed this once,” this is an appeal to Pathos because it try’s to persuade the reader that fasting can make life more enjoyable by making the reader picture a sailor leaving his family and them coming back after a long period. It convinces the reader that fasting can make the smaller things in life more and enjoyable and more appreciated.

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• Logos: “This is the great reunion, and everybody gorged themselves silly,” this is an appeal to logos because when someone has eaten in days the logical thing to do is to find food and eat. So when the hunter returns with food it is natural that they indulge themselves a little because they have been fasting. Which makes the experience more enjoyable.

Vocabulary:
• Divinity-the state or quality of being divine.
• Gorge-eat a large amount greedily; fill oneself with food.
Reaction:
This excerpt was very interesting and it made a good point. If people do fast more aspects of their life then they are more enjoyable. For example, I can not see my girlfriend outside of school, so when we do have the rare chance to spend time together, we always enjoy it more than we would if we saw each other every day of the week. Fasting also teaches people the importance of everyday items and people learn to appreciate them more because they are not there anymore. If you took someones cellphone for a week, they would appreciate it and cherish it more when they got it back and they would not take it for granted. Also many faiths fast to show their loyalty to their deity and they appreciate their life more because of it.
Work Cited:
By Richard Nordquist Grammar & Composition Expert. "Comparison in Laurie Lee's "Appetite"" About.com Education. N.p., 30 Mar. 2012. Web. 03 Nov. 2016.