Flavio's Lungs And Poverty

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Poverty is a blighted subject that should not be concealed, the more comprehend and exposed to the wealth they can reinforce. Parks applies compassion towards his audience to appeal the imagination and feelings. Implying pathos helps the reader understand the author's perspective which helps them adapt to the author's beliefs and values. Parks uses pathos as an advantage to illustrate a scene. Flavio's lungs are not effective and it causes Flavio to have cough spasms making his face turn blue. It was time for Flavio to see a doctor, however the clinic was a one-story wooden shack with an atmosphere covered in bacteria with over fifty people waiting for miracles. After waiting for two hours until the doctor arrived it was no phenomenon “that

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