Carr conducted a great deal of research on other authors he perceived had the same perspective as him, which would be an example of logical appeal or …show more content…
Using pathos allows the author to display his thoughts as he see’s them, sometimes with an imagined picture. An example that Carr uses in his article is when he says, “a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.” This short segment of his large article explains how he at one time was submerged under a seas of words, fully committed to reading, and now is much less careful, and only finds himself skimming across the pages and words. This use of vivid imagery and figurative language makes the reader more captivated to read on. When pathos is executed correctly it can pull any reader in, and in this case persuade them to believe that Carr is