Analogous to ethos, pathos is a Greek word meaning suffering or experience, depending on the situation. This rhetorical method is used to gain an emotional appeal, meaning appealing to not only emotion but to imagination. It is usually expressed in a point of view and/or a specific tone. The most prominent form of pathos in John Gatto’s Against School is his overall tone. Let’s just start with the fact he is angry with the school system. In multiple places in his essay, he writes about how school is dumbing the society down, essentially “factories in which raw products are to be shaped and fashioned…” (Cubberley in Public School Administration). In another place, his anger is directed towards modern economy, where he expresses that schools don’t make the next Albert Einstein, but your average
Analogous to ethos, pathos is a Greek word meaning suffering or experience, depending on the situation. This rhetorical method is used to gain an emotional appeal, meaning appealing to not only emotion but to imagination. It is usually expressed in a point of view and/or a specific tone. The most prominent form of pathos in John Gatto’s Against School is his overall tone. Let’s just start with the fact he is angry with the school system. In multiple places in his essay, he writes about how school is dumbing the society down, essentially “factories in which raw products are to be shaped and fashioned…” (Cubberley in Public School Administration). In another place, his anger is directed towards modern economy, where he expresses that schools don’t make the next Albert Einstein, but your average