When Castle was writing this she use enough pathos to get the reader to feel her emotion and step in her shoes for a moment ; but not too much to where it looks like all she was looking for was sympathy. Furthermore pathos or the emotional appeal means to persuade an audience by appealing to their emotions. For example, Casa states "God knows it would have been easier to have food stamps to offer someone to take me in or medical insurance but I had to make do without both ." So, I work under the table when I could and accepted food clothes and shelter from those who felt sorry for me." Casa in these examples use pathos to invoke sympathy from the audience to make the audience feel what Castle wants them to feel.
