Leopard Man’s Individuality and Conformity
Logan Feys builds a powerful argument to persuade his audience that people should “be psychologically free enough and strong enough to live independently, leaving society and entering on no one’s terms but your own”. To strength the logic and persuasiveness of this argument, he uses a meaningful story of Tom Leopard, a man tattooed from head to toe with leopard spots. Another way Feys does this is by the use of rhetorical questions.
Feys starts his argument of recounting the story of Tom Leopard- a man who rejects society and is psychologically free enough to live life independently on his own terms. By drawing in his readers with a meaningful encounter about Leopard Man’s indivudulty, the author means to establish the potential inspiring definition of what it means to be human with a strong will to live life …show more content…
He does this by his use of logos that the masses that the abnormal suffer from is psychological disorders. He asks the reader to consider “could it be that the pathological drive to “fit in” has spawned these mass self-inflicted diseases?’( paragraph #5). This rhetorical question causes the reader to question the difference between “fitting in” due to fear of what others might think or just being yourself and living life without having to care about what society thinks. To illustrate, the author then states that “ conformity can be seen as the world’s most prevalent and most pernicious psychological disorder”( paragraph #6). This strategy is an appeal to pathos, because it makes the reader have some type of a strong emotional response towards “fitting in”. By doing this, Fey's develops his argument that “seceding from society, as Leopard Man has done, would certainly free us from social pressures” (paragraph
Logan Feys builds a powerful argument to persuade his audience that people should “be psychologically free enough and strong enough to live independently, leaving society and entering on no one’s terms but your own”. To strength the logic and persuasiveness of this argument, he uses a meaningful story of Tom Leopard, a man tattooed from head to toe with leopard spots. Another way Feys does this is by the use of rhetorical questions.
Feys starts his argument of recounting the story of Tom Leopard- a man who rejects society and is psychologically free enough to live life independently on his own terms. By drawing in his readers with a meaningful encounter about Leopard Man’s indivudulty, the author means to establish the potential inspiring definition of what it means to be human with a strong will to live life …show more content…
He does this by his use of logos that the masses that the abnormal suffer from is psychological disorders. He asks the reader to consider “could it be that the pathological drive to “fit in” has spawned these mass self-inflicted diseases?’( paragraph #5). This rhetorical question causes the reader to question the difference between “fitting in” due to fear of what others might think or just being yourself and living life without having to care about what society thinks. To illustrate, the author then states that “ conformity can be seen as the world’s most prevalent and most pernicious psychological disorder”( paragraph #6). This strategy is an appeal to pathos, because it makes the reader have some type of a strong emotional response towards “fitting in”. By doing this, Fey's develops his argument that “seceding from society, as Leopard Man has done, would certainly free us from social pressures” (paragraph