Critiqueassignment assignment

The child says to his mom, “ Mommy, you sit down. Ill read it to you”‘(45). This is an extreme set back for the mothers self esteem. He wants the readers to feel the sadness she feels through this pathos appeal. Kolas next tugs on the reader’s emotions by giving an example of an illiterate woman’s car breaking down on the exit ramp of a freeway (45). The authors emotional appeal is very strong in this example. The woman gets to a phone and tries to explain to a cop that her car is broken down, she is lost and is unable to read. At this point the cop says to her, “ l can’t send out a car o you if you can’t tell me where you are”(AS).

This frightens the woman involved in the incident just like it frightens the reader. However, he uses another pathos appeal by explaining how not only is getting a job as an illiterate individual difficult but keeping one could be basically impossible. With every job there will be some reading involved. If you cannot read the instructions to perform your job to its fullest potential, most likely you will be fired. This means no income and can resort into be unable to pay your bills. This may cause an eviction notice and an illiterate errors is not able to read this notice when given to them.