Pathos In Supersize Me

Morgan spurlock uses pathos most effectively to persuade his audience during his movie Super Size Me. By using the appeal of pathos, spurlock makes his audience feel innocence, disgust, and fear. The method Morgan uses to attract innocence is through the use of children. In my opinion children are the most important factor, because they are seen as a group that does not know any better. Observing kids in their schools that look overweight and getting little exercise and nutritional food allows for viewers to relate to their own children. By seeing the children that are relatively overweight at a young age automatically puts the blame on the parents. Most of the time when parents see their children they don’t tend to see the disgusting side of what fattening foods they are allowing their child to consume. …show more content…
By having his crew film him throwing up really catches his viewers attention and makes them second guess the food they buy from McDonald’s and it has them in fear of what it could do to them. By showing this clip, Spurlock receives the exact attention that he wants!
Another example is when Spurlock finds a disgusting long black hair in his salad from McDonald’s and continues to eat it, which puts a bad image on McDonald’s food. Spurlock also inserted a video clip of an obese individual who is receiving surgery. He shows this clip so the audience knows what an obese person has to go through to stay alive. Not only does he have his viewers in disgust now, he also has them in