The C word in the Hallways essay
Anna Quindlen goes deep into the minds of today’s youth. She explains the importance of physiological autopsy which basically means that a kid kills himself and then they uncover why the kid did what he did. Quindlen is an amazing author and uses many different rhetorical strategies to make us feel her emotion on the subject. Quindlen uses pathos, refutation, and metaphors in order to get everyone to be aware of the dangers of mental illness.
Quindlen uses pathos to appeal to the emotions of her audience. Quindlen states in the article that “psychological autopsy is what the doctors call it when a kid kills himself and they go back over the plowed ground of his short life, and discover all the hidden markers that led to the rope, the blade, the gun.” That particular sentence from the article really appealed to my sense of emotion and I felt the pain that she revealed through her amazing choice of words. Later on in the article Quindlen gives an example of pathos again. Quindlen states in her article that “it’s common to have black-bordered photographs in yearbooks and murder suspects with acne problems.” Quindlen really made me think about some of the students who live in my town and go to my high school that might be …show more content…
Quindlen uses certain phrases within her article that really make you think about how important being “emotionally unstable” is. In her article Quindlen states that “In the 1956 movie “the bad seed” little Patty McCormack played what was then called a homicidal maniac, and the film censors demanded a ludicrous mock curtain call in which the child actress was taken over the knee of her screen father and spanked.” Quindlen really revealed to me that the film censors of the move “the bad seed” basically said that all the teens with mental illness just need a good spanking… but that is not the case, not by a long
Anna Quindlen goes deep into the minds of today’s youth. She explains the importance of physiological autopsy which basically means that a kid kills himself and then they uncover why the kid did what he did. Quindlen is an amazing author and uses many different rhetorical strategies to make us feel her emotion on the subject. Quindlen uses pathos, refutation, and metaphors in order to get everyone to be aware of the dangers of mental illness.
Quindlen uses pathos to appeal to the emotions of her audience. Quindlen states in the article that “psychological autopsy is what the doctors call it when a kid kills himself and they go back over the plowed ground of his short life, and discover all the hidden markers that led to the rope, the blade, the gun.” That particular sentence from the article really appealed to my sense of emotion and I felt the pain that she revealed through her amazing choice of words. Later on in the article Quindlen gives an example of pathos again. Quindlen states in her article that “it’s common to have black-bordered photographs in yearbooks and murder suspects with acne problems.” Quindlen really made me think about some of the students who live in my town and go to my high school that might be …show more content…
Quindlen uses certain phrases within her article that really make you think about how important being “emotionally unstable” is. In her article Quindlen states that “In the 1956 movie “the bad seed” little Patty McCormack played what was then called a homicidal maniac, and the film censors demanded a ludicrous mock curtain call in which the child actress was taken over the knee of her screen father and spanked.” Quindlen really revealed to me that the film censors of the move “the bad seed” basically said that all the teens with mental illness just need a good spanking… but that is not the case, not by a long