Pathos In Children Of Gogeks Summary

Bernstein has more multiple uses of pathos than Gogeks’. Bernstein was able to do that by having different people such as actual addicts or children of addicts give their stories of how drug abuse affects them. For starters, Bernstein opens her article about a woman known as Tracy Carter who was sent to county jail for her addiction to heroin and wrote, “Carter says she herself was born a heroin addict. So were most of her seven children” (Bernstein 632). The significance of placing this story at the opening and bringing in the idea of “children” right away provoked emotional feelings from the audiences already. Bringing in “children” to the story makes the audiences associate with the children because usually the thought of children in society …show more content…
The author once more brought in an scenario that was suppose to help the audiences feel emotionally connected through the patho example of, “ we could be talking about a child who grew up in a crack house, who grew up with parents who were criminals, selling drugs, and simply became very normal behavior for him” (Gogek and Gogek 638-639). When the author brought in “child”, one would of thought they would use it as a weapon of sympathy because of all the positive connotations associated with children's but instead the authors basically accuse childrens who are victims to drug addicted parents as if they were use to it and probably become addicts themselves. This cause reader to feel repulsed by feeling bad for the children and not caring to whatever solution the author would later provide because why should they care about these people who seems to be in a helpless cycle? Furthermore, Gogeks’ seem to only use poor examples of general scenarios as their form of pathos to persuade the reader is not successful compare to Bernstein's numerous real life examples from different group of people help her be able to send out her message to the reader