Pathos In Joseph Boyden's Three Day Road

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Some novels possess the power to thrill and change the minds of its readers to experience pathos, this is due to the dominance that is present within the lines of the book. In Joseph Boyden’s Three Day Road, the readers of the book are thrilled by the feeling of sympathy or pity which inevitably is triggered by the quality of power and the breath taking experience in the novel. Therefore, the topics of both imagination (fiction) and fact (non-fiction) are being explained and presented with effective detail to explain pathos, which is taking place in the novel. The characters of the book are being met with continuous fears and challenges that upset the life of these individuals and stimulate the audience to fell pity for the characters; this

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