All human beings have a purpose in this life; some discover it while they are young, whereas others find it during later in their life. Xiuhtezcatl Martínez, the author of the environmental movement guide, called We Rise, found his purpose at an earlier age. From six years of age, the author expresses that he saw that adults had damaged the world in which he was living, and thanks to this he found his desire, his voice and motivation to want to make a difference. He found his purpose when he "saw the despair in the planet I love" (citation). Martínez uses his personal history, through pathos and ethos, to spread awareness of human actions towards the planet and to provoke and stimulate in them the desire to make a difference.
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The author appeals to pathos when he expresses a personal story. He opens his heart when he states that "I realized that it did not matter how old I was, I needed to speak out about what was happening to our planet. I had to do everything I could to protect this planet that was in so much danger. It felt like a huge turning point for me. I began to put everything together I had learned from my sisters and my mom about acting in the world and everything my father taught me about our connection to the Earth" (citation). He believes that if only the world would hear and know that they are killing what gives them life. Martinez makes another appeal to pathos when he recounts the moment in which he cries in the arms of his father, and it was then that he thought that "I wanted to take this emotion, this pain, and this sadness that I had for our planet and do something about it. I felt a sense of true purpose as the urgency of this crisis sunk in" (citation). The author wants the reader to feel the same passion that he is feeling and caring about doing something about what surrounds them. Expressing his emotions and feelings, Martínez manages to …show more content…
Appealing to pathos and ethos, through his personal stories, Martínez advises that to make a difference you must do what you love to do since that would increase the motivation of using the passion and desire to make a difference and find solutions would help to make a change from person to person until it is contagious to the population. All human beings are capable of making a difference and doing something for the place in which they live, for the
With the aspiration …show more content…
The author appeals to pathos when he expresses a personal story. He opens his heart when he states that "I realized that it did not matter how old I was, I needed to speak out about what was happening to our planet. I had to do everything I could to protect this planet that was in so much danger. It felt like a huge turning point for me. I began to put everything together I had learned from my sisters and my mom about acting in the world and everything my father taught me about our connection to the Earth" (citation). He believes that if only the world would hear and know that they are killing what gives them life. Martinez makes another appeal to pathos when he recounts the moment in which he cries in the arms of his father, and it was then that he thought that "I wanted to take this emotion, this pain, and this sadness that I had for our planet and do something about it. I felt a sense of true purpose as the urgency of this crisis sunk in" (citation). The author wants the reader to feel the same passion that he is feeling and caring about doing something about what surrounds them. Expressing his emotions and feelings, Martínez manages to …show more content…
Appealing to pathos and ethos, through his personal stories, Martínez advises that to make a difference you must do what you love to do since that would increase the motivation of using the passion and desire to make a difference and find solutions would help to make a change from person to person until it is contagious to the population. All human beings are capable of making a difference and doing something for the place in which they live, for the