Writing information that touches the reader emotionally, it feels as if Abramsky is trying to make the reader feel bad for the prisoners. Other than just providing an article full of guilt and sympathy, he delivers outside sources and statistics. Overall, I believe that Abramsky uses pathos in an unfair way, and finally logos and ethos in a smart and effective way. First off, in Sasha Abramsky’s, “When They Get Out,” Abramsky uses pathos and appeals to the reader’s emotions by painting a visual of the life of inmates in isolation. He says, “The inmates are often tormented by headaches.
“rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless. Furthermore they both include the reality of family life as the poems are realistic and the poems, especially Nettles, have both the love and misery of family relationships. In Nettles the love in the poem is the protective instincts of a parent towards his son but the misery is the Nettles that had hurt his child and the fact that being protective isn’t enough to stop him from getting hurt. The realistic relationship in Harmonium is the family resentment and frustration from a son to his father. We can tell that the writer resents and is frustrated by his father as it says “and he being him can’t help but say.......... and I, being me” which shows that he is frustrated at their relationship.
His lack of morality and faith, his rejection in the belief of the same moral equanimity that Delia fosters in, frees him from the constraints of personal or communal responsibility. When the men around Joe Clarke's store porch gossip about Delia and Sykes, they all agree that men like Sykes operate on a law of morality that is all their own. As Clarke expostulates: "Taint no law on earth dat kin make a man be decent if it aint in 'im" (886). Syke's flouting of these "laws" locates him as a character of supreme evil, for, like the devil who also flouted God's law, Sykes pursues sex and women with equal fearlessness. His mistreatment of Delia also reveals his contempt for his wife and what she represents.
This is the moment at which Stowe wants every 19th century reader to realize the full horror of slavery. Scenes of blood and cruelty are shocking to our ear and heart. What man has nerve to do, man has not nerve to hear. What brother-man and brother-Christian must suffer, cannot be told us, even in our secret chamber, it so harrows the soul! And yet, oh my country!
Ethan is influenced by his grim surroundings and becomes a bitter, melancholy man. A lot of his sad nature has to do with his surroundings, as the barren and empty characteristics of Starkfield have forced Ethan to become bitter and pitiful. At the beginning of the story the narrator clearly states Starkfield’s influence on Ethan’s appearance: “He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.” (Wharton 13) A character’s attributes depend on the location he grows up on. His face looks as gloomy as the night, cheerless and bleak.
First of all, when boss is mad, he gives Crooks hell. For example, people on the farm always isolate and bully him. When George and Lennie come to the bunkhouse, the old man taking to George says, “Yeah, Nice fella too. Got a crooked back where a horse kicked him. The boss gives him hell when he’s mad.” (Steinbeck 20).
Such violence is really only the cause of Roy’s pain, his emotions controlling his actions conflicts with our prejudice. Frankenstein's Monster's anguish comes from the rejection he feels from society “Am I to be thought the only criminal, when all human kind sinned against me?”. Posing this Rhetorical question highlights the Irony of how the monster while innocent has been judged just as the reader has. Influenced by her father Mary Shelley's story of a monster portrays the idea that to be human goes beyond that of the body. The Monsters vulgarity and the Replicants perfection does not define them their reaction and action and the ability to think morally and ethically makes them human.
(Volpe 1484) Through out “Barn-Burning”, there are many descriptions geared towards the Satan-like qualities of Abner Snopes. Faulkner portrays Abner Snopes as a ruthless man without morals who cares for no one other than his blood. Through the eyes of Sarty the reader gets a clear image of Snopes and his evil and spiteful
Gene recalls Leper saying, “‘Like a savage underneath. Like,’ now there was the blind confusion in his eyes again, a wild slyness around his mouth, ‘like that time you knocked Finny out of the tree,”’ (145). Leper knows Gene’s deepest, darkest secret that, if it got back to the boys at Devon, could ruin his life there, and throw Gene into bitter isolation. Similar to jouncing Finny off the limb, this is an accident. It was a reflex, a “survival of the fittest” reaction that Gene did out of anger, fear, and confusion.
• “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (235) Reasoning: This quote that was stated at the end of the book shows the reader and myself that the world of savagery only leads to murder and sorrow. That in fact, humans are not naturally civil. They’re naturally evil and animalistic. And this quote alone could destroy Rousseau’s idea that humans are naturally