Pathos was one of the persuasion appeals Randye utilized to make her audience rethink their course after graduation. Right into her article, Ms. Hoder indicated that teenagers who deflect from the education agenda for extracurricular activities, hobbies, or work, “are more mature when they arrive at college and more engaged in their education going forward” (para 3). By venting that a graduate who takes a gap year is more mature, rather than one who does not, makes the audience question their abilities, making them feel mediocre. Everybody in the young generation today wants to be mature and well cultivated to feel requisite. By saying that a gap year conceives a more sophisticated character, it convinces a graduate to engage in a gap year.
