Charles Spurgeon one said “It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.” Happiness is not something that just happens to you. It either comes from you being a giver or a taker. Either way you find happiness by giving things to others or taking things for yourself. The article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” uses ethos to tell us how we make ourselves happy. The article also uses pathos by telling us stories from a book written by a Holocaust prisoner. Lastly the article uses several examples of how people have become happy over the years or what people do to become happy.
In the article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” they use ethos to give us facts on the things that make us happy. “Gallup also reports that nearly 60 percent all Americas today feel happy, without a lot of stress or worry” (The Atlantic 2015). This is one of the quotes that shows you how ethos is used in this article. In the article they also use ethos by taking quotes from the book they are talking about in the article. For example “Frankl wrote in Man’s Searching for …show more content…
For example “Like many others in the camps, these two men were hopeless and thought that there was nothing more to expect from life, nothing to live for” (The Atlantic 2015). By using this quote in the article they are using facts form a story they are appealing to pathos because they are appealing to the readers emotions. They also use quotes like “It was a question of getting them to realize that life was still getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them. For one man it was his child…. For the other, a scientist, it was a series of books” (The Atlantic 2015). This is another quote that shows how they use pathos to capture the emotion of the
In the article “There’s More to Life Than Being Happy” they use ethos to give us facts on the things that make us happy. “Gallup also reports that nearly 60 percent all Americas today feel happy, without a lot of stress or worry” (The Atlantic 2015). This is one of the quotes that shows you how ethos is used in this article. In the article they also use ethos by taking quotes from the book they are talking about in the article. For example “Frankl wrote in Man’s Searching for …show more content…
For example “Like many others in the camps, these two men were hopeless and thought that there was nothing more to expect from life, nothing to live for” (The Atlantic 2015). By using this quote in the article they are using facts form a story they are appealing to pathos because they are appealing to the readers emotions. They also use quotes like “It was a question of getting them to realize that life was still getting them to realize that life was still expecting something from them; something in the future was expected of them. For one man it was his child…. For the other, a scientist, it was a series of books” (The Atlantic 2015). This is another quote that shows how they use pathos to capture the emotion of the