Susan Klebold's I Will Never Know Why

Susan Klebold’s “I Will Never Know Why” essay not only gets her point across to the reader it helps others effected by the same scenario who couldn’t find the words to say to the media find their voice. Her talk about suicide prevention take a large role in the overall meaning of the essay. This essay is meant to be not only an apology, but also a way to help her find peace through the explaining of her way of looking at the shooting from a mother’s stand point. The pathos in this essay are very strong but every once and a while she uses some ethos and logos. At the start of the fifth page Susan begins using logos to show how she was being attacked by not only the local media but also the global. She uses this as a way to further prove her point that the media has it all wrong. She slowly starts to distance herself the resining the shooting occurred. She then later goes on to use pathos to show how much she really did care for her child and how her love might have pushed him to fare and given him expectations he couldn’t live up to. Finally concluding the fifth page she uses pathos to say she …show more content…
Logos is then used to explain suicide to the reader. She says that her son was in deep depression and suicidal. In the reading of her sons journals she finds great sorrow and how there was know way she could have got into his mind and foreseen the events he had planned. That shows pathos in the explaining of her sorrow and logos in the explaining of how she couldn’t have seen this coming. At the bottom of the sixth page she uses pathos and ethos to show that her son was probably too scared to share his thoughts and emotions with anyone who did not also feel them. Ethos is seen in her talking about how society shuns those emotions and usually give kids with them hard times. She is in no way defending her son, but is only trying to help others see why he acted the way he