The appeal to the audience’s sense of emotion, Pathos. Stood out the most in the short story of “The Key Game” by Ida Fink. In this short story Fink uses Pathos by displaying the emotional state of each character, she also appeals to the idea of logos, but not as evident as pathos, and finally she shows through her sentimental vocabulary the emotional standpoint of this family. Fink uses the emotional status of each character in this short story to get an emotional response from the reader. Just imagine your only hope of survival is to rely on your three-year-old child. It’s tough to think about right, what type of mindset did this family have to have to have their child be their savior in a time of danger? All they could do was tell him,
“You did a good job little one, a good job.” (37) In this quote the father is reassuring the child that he did his best and that unintentionally informing him that he is an essential part of this operation. In the story the family has been on the run for a while now and they have settled down in an apartment that they have been living in for two weeks now. The dad, “His eyes were bloodshot and kept blinking in that funny way” (35). You can tell that he has been stressed and left without sleep for a long time. Also imagine how it would feel to be trapped in your house, you can't go to the market hang out with friends or do anything but sit and wait and hope you don't get caught by the German police. This instills a sense of tension and fear into the reader for the father's life. In the story the family relies on their three-year-old son with his “cute features” “chubby cheeks and blue eyes”(35). To save his father's life when the mother is at work. The child in the game is required to answer the door but take as long as possible and to make as much noise as possible to find the keys to open the door while the father runs to the bathroom and hides in the wall. Again putting the life of his father into his son who is barely old enough to know what is going on at the time and how essential his role is. This game is a logical game that the family has come up with to ensure the fathers survival but in the actions of the boy and how it plays out appeals to the emotions of the reader. As this family has been on the run for a while now, most likely a jewish family running from the Nazis. Fink spark the emotions of the reader by using less emotion in the story and allowing the reader to feel the emotions themselves. Fink does not express a lot of emotion in her writing rather she allows the reader to feel it, “And what will you say when they ask you about your parents? Mama’s at work. ‘And Papa?’ The child turned pale. ‘And Papa’ the man repeated more calmly, He’s Dead, the child answered and threw himself at his father, who was standing right beside him.”(38) In this quote you get the sense that the child doesn't really understand why he has to say this and he clearly loves his father. The child is emotionally stressed in this situation and the reader feels this. Conclusion In the short story “The Key Game” fink appeals to the reader's pathos through emotional states of each character, also contradicts with logos with the logical part of the game, and finally uses little emotion in the stories writing to pull a bigger emotional response from the reader. Fink created an emotional response out of myself the reader through pathos, imagery, character actions, and word choice. The sense of Pathos in Ida Fink’s short story “The Key Game” is truely perspective changing.
In the “180” movie Ray Comfort outstandingly used rhetorical appeal throughout his argument in a thorough way to further grasp his audience’s attention. He used pathos, ethos, and logos during the course of his dispute of abortion and the Holocaust. Comfort uses pathos more frequently than the other two appeals, to plea to the audience’s heart strings. An example of when pathos was used was when
In a restaurant, picture a young boy enjoying breakfast with his mother. Then suddenly, the child’s gesture expresses how his life was good until “a man started changing it all” (285). This passage reflects how writer, Dagoberto Gilb, in his short story, “Uncle Rock,” sets a tone of displeasure in Erick’s character as he writes a story about the emotions of a child while experiencing his mother’s attempt to find a suitable husband who can provide for her, and who can become a father to him. Erick’s quiet demeanor serves to emphasis how children may express their feelings of disapproval. By communicating through his silence or gestures, Erick shows his disapproval towards the men in a relationship with his mother as he experiences them.
For example, the emotion is felt when Kozol speaks to a student from a New York, Bronx high school, “Think of it this way,” said a sixteen-year-old girl. “If people in New York woke up one day and learned that we were gone…how would they feel? Then when asking how she thought the people of New York would feel she replied, “I think they’d be relieved” (Kozol 205). By mentioning the thoughts and emotions of individuals involved with the issues of school system segregation and inequality his reader cannot help but develop a feeling of empathy for children that feel as if no one cares about them and their issue. Kozol also uses pathos effectively by reading letters to his reader he received from young elementary school children that are not afforded the same amenities as other children in wealthier school systems, amenities such as toilet paper or the appropriate amount of restrooms. Which causes students to hold the urge to relieve themselves out of fear of being late for class (Kozol 214). With the proper use of pathos, Kozol places the reader in the same situation and assistances the reader with an understanding of his reason for conveying a concern to help children in this unfortunate situation. Another example of Pathos is when he speaks of the letters that came from third-grade children asking for help with getting them better things. He mentions a letter that had the most affected on him that came from a girl named Elizabeth, “It is not fair that other kids have a garden and new things. But we don’t have that.” (Kozol 206). This example being only one example of the few things mentioned in the letter. The tone of the little girl from when Kozol reads gives a pitiful and sad feeling. By stating this, it acts on the reader’s emotional state which creates a sense of wanting to resolve the problem of
H.G.Bissinger, through his novel Friday Night Lights, creates an appeal to pathos to persuade readers to care about his opinion that the emphasis placed on High School Football has a dangerous impact on the lives of students. To support his opinion, Bissinger employs methods and techniques which help create an appeal to pathos. Pathos is an appeal which heavily relates to a reader’s emotion on various different aspects. To establish the fundamental problem Odessa, Texas has when it comes to football, Bissinger shows the religious like attitude the game is conceived with. By adding testimonies, Bissinger ties in emotion while strengthening his argument. Lastly, Bissinger uses personal stories
Children are seen as adorable, fun loving, and hard to control. Ida Fink uses a child in “The Key Game” to be the key to this family’s life. The setting is placed during the start of World War II; Jews all around were being taken. Fink uses a boy who doesn’t look the traditional Jewish, “And their chubby, blue-eyed, three-year-old child” (Fink). As they read on the emotional connection is stronger because there is a face to go with this character. Fink draws a reader in by making connections to a family member the reader may know. A blue-eyed, chubby child is the picture child of America. A child in any story makes readers more attached especially if they have children of their own. The child is three way too young to be responsible for the safety of the father, yet has to be. Throughout the story, we see how the mother struggles with making her child play the game because no child should be responsible like
Pathos was use often in this story to show his compassion to those affected victims, and his disagreement toward the opposing individuals of the death penalty. In the article, the writer put sentences that had emotion that the writer convoke to the audience. For example, in the last two paragraphs he mentions the case of a murder victim that is not help. At the beginning, Koch showed sadness, then toward the end, he displayed the madness he felt toward those who did not do something to help. He believes that the opposing group toward death penalty are the same as the people that did not do anything to help. With this emotion, the author was able to make the reader thoughtful whether not supporting death penalty makes justice of the inoffensive victim. Although the writer uses a considerable amount of emotion, he does not go to an extreme, which would made his argument emotional for the reader to lost interest of
Ethos and logos are used as an appeal in the essay. It was a story with a lot of emotion which she had successfully handled in the whole essay. She presented the essay in the real life with many facts, she gave poetic touch to her essay because of some of the metaphors she used like we didn 't breathe it. She used both logos and pathos in
Facing hardships, problems, or obstacles shouldn’t discourage one from completing their task or job. Many of authors usually put their characters through tough complications to show the reader that no matter what happens; anyone could pull through. In the short story, “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connel, the main character Mr. Rainsford gets stranded on an eerie island with a bad reputation. He meets General Zaroff and gets thrown into a huge hunting game, where his life is on the line. In the end, he wins the game and will continue to hunt animals, but not people, as the general once did. He will continue to hunt because one, hunting means everything to him. Two, he will not continue the general’s crazy ways, and resort back to the legal and non-dangerous to other humans sport. Third, he feels powerful when he becomes the hunter and not the hunted. Giving up hunting would be like giving up his life, so just because of a minor block he had to overcome, he will not give up hunting.
... audience, it made it more complex to have pathos effect all the audiences. To sum up, the author use of pathos did get the audience to be interested in the topic by giving them a solution to help yet, most would not like the topic of depressed doctor in need of aid.
In the end, the narrator’s only describable tendency is of that of an antihero. Chastising society for both the condition of the children and forcing this adoption onto the staff of this hospital. Yet through this perpetual motion, he perseveres forward.
Owens and Sawhill use pathos to evoke the feelings of their readers. This method establishes
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Early in the film , a psychologist is called in to treat the troubled child :and she calmed the mother with a statement to the effect that, “ These things come and go but they are unexplainable”. This juncture of the film is a starting point for one of the central themes of the film which is : how a fragile family unit is besieged by unusual forces both natural and supernatural which breaks and possesses and unites with the morally challenged father while the mother and the child through their innocence, love, and honesty triumph over these forces.
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The children couldn’t accept what they thought was so horrible. There was a lot of ignorance and carelessness portrayed throughout this short story. The theme of ungratefulness was revealed in this story; The author depicted how disrespecting someone can inturn feed you with information you may wish you never knew and how someone can do one wrong thing and it immediately erases all the good things a person did throughout their