Ethos Pathos Logos In Inside Out

Inside out is a movie about a girl named Riley Anderson who is born with five emotions joy, sadness, fear, disgust and anger. These emotions are housed in Riley’s mind called headquarters. Each emotion plays a very big role in Riley’s life because they chose how she should feel during every second of the day since she was born. As riley got older things changed and her parents decided to move to San Francisco. Moving to a different state and city really made Riley’s life go downhill. Riley’s emotions fear, anger, disgust, and sadness were put into effect when she realizes she has to start a new school, and make new friends. Joy is displayed as a character who take charge and is always happy. For example, joys doesn’t like when other emotion

touch the board to control Riley’s mind. Disgust protects riley from nasty or unpleasant things. Fear protects her from hurting herself, and anger help riley decide if she should be angry or not. As Always joy tries and succeed at making Riley’s situations that were sad, happy again. During the movie sadness plays this character who is really depressed, sensitive and emotional; who tries to find her true purpose in life.

Sadness is hardly ever used because joy tries to keep riley happy as much as possible. Sadness’ logic in the movie primarily follows pathos. Pathos is the emotional appeal to persuade others. This mode of persuasion is commonly used to express emotions of sympathy, sorrow, pity, or compassion. In the movie they used sadness to convince joy with an argument that she is useful, which helped the other emotions really understand what her role is as an emotions in Riley’s mind. When riley was born joy was the first emotion on her mind but when sadness came and made her cry, joy pushes her out the way just to make her happy again. Sadness likes being helpful but ends up ruining things like core memories. For example, joy gave sadness something to do so that she won’t feel tempted to touch other memories and changed them from being happy to being sad. In result of joy excluding sadness from Riley’s life, she feels left out and all she wants to do is “cry”. In the movie joy tries to fix sadness’s mistakes but ends up getting sucked up and transported with sadness to Riley’s memory

storage. Since joy is not at headquarters no one is there to make riley happy. Joy and sadness are stuck and don’t remember how to get back to headquarters. Then joy suddenly remembers that sadness read all the manuals, and could help them get back. Sadness tells joy not to go in the storage columns but she doesn’t listen and gets lost. Then they find Bing Bong which is an old imaginary friend of Riley’s. Bing Bong tries to be helpful and tells them he knows a short cut to get back to headquarters. Joy automatically loves his idea, but sadness warns her about the dangers of taking Bing bong’s Short cut. Joy doesn’t listen and begins their journey anyway.

During their journey they hit those really dangerous places she told joy about in abstract thought. Sadness also tells joy to scare riley in her dream to wake her up but she doesn’t listen and gives her a fun dream that wouldn’t wake her up, making the train out of service because riley is a sleep. They end up finding a way to get back to headquarters to make riley happy again and to put back the four core memories. In the movie sadness realizes she is smart and thinks stuff through more than the rest of the emotions. Although, sadness gives of this negative personality and say things like “I only make things worse! Riley’s better off without me”, “I’m too sad to walk” she shows compassionate towards others. Sadness true purpose is proved during the journey through Riley’s mind with joy and Bing Bong. Her role becomes to tell others when riley really need help and helps her express her true feelings to her parents about moving. After sadness helped riley when no other emotion else could, they finally accepted her. Joy realizes why sadness is useful so she starts to treat her with respect. During the movie sadness give the logic of pathos by calling for equality between the other

emotions.