Andrea Elliott is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. She looks for the best stories even if they are the most complicated. According to the New York Times article on the author, she became passionate about revealing poverty and social problems. In 2013 as a lengthy report for The New York Times, following the publication of her article “Invisible Child”, she won the George Polk Award among other honors. With this article, she prompted city officials to remove 400 children from substandard shelters.
As part of his background, he faces the problem that there was no middle class in New York City, where financial pressures such as unemployment, health care, housing costs, and low wages are increasingly common. Andrea Elliott puts this social problem in the spotlight as a person; she has a name, a family and a dream, but not a place she can call home. This “Invisible Child”, Dasani, goes out into the world to show people how ungrateful they are, myself included. This 11-year-old girl, seen through Elliott’s eyes, shows that Dasani is strong enough to wake up under the same roof as 22,000 other homeless people, the same roof where drugs are released like air, where oxygen is almost nonexistent. arrives. Enough, where the piles of laundry are bigger than her bed, and sexual predators are always mischievous. Dasani pushes on, despite her daily struggle, her myriad of responsibilities, her parental dysfunction, and her fear of being rejected by society. In my analysis, she would show how the author makes her readers wonder how lucky they are; she introduces this item through pathos, to indicate that this “invisible child” can still get up every day with enthusiasm and yet say “That’s a lot on my plate.”
Andrea Elliott shows her version of what New York is without the luxury, praise and wealth. That New York is related to commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, technology, education and entertainment; opens its doors each year to approximately 55 million annual visitors. Sadly, according to the Coalition for Homeless Organizing, 58,987 people will be sleeping in a shelter tonight in New York City, yes, New York itself. Year after year, this number increases and the solution becomes more remote. That’s why Andrea Elliott, through pathos, plays such a big part in the theme. Every word and every image in this article revealed the incompetence of society to take a closer look at the problem. This impressive and powerful article that Andrea Elliott shared provides a window into inequality. Whenever Elliott talks about homelessness, it’s easy to sense how this problem, despite the tragedy and harsh conditions, is bravely handled.
Elliott hints in every line that simple things can be more meaningful to people with fewer facilities in life. The author shows empathy with her readers in every detail. For example, a character in the story of the girl’s mother, Joanie, changed her life after the New York Times helped her find a job. She said that the best day of her life was her first day at work, they live from a dream that governs them, a reason to live. Normally a normal person who has everything will never rank her first day at work as the best day of her life, most of the time she feels forced or miserable by it. Elliott touched me in a way that probably any article before. Elliott’s rhetorical analysis of pathos is her forte; Her words to describe the situation are labels to describe a situation, for example: clothes, veneer of wealth and longings are more emotional for readers than clothes.
The use of analogies, metaphors, and other figures of speech not only make Elliott’s article more interesting and compelling. Dasani’s own energetic intelligence and devotion to life is what Andrea Elliott offers her readers in pathos. She sleeps with her seven siblings and her parents on six deteriorating mattresses. She’s not even close enough to the queen-size mattress where most New Yorkers spend their nights. They share a common bathroom, whose toilets are often clogged with vomit and feces. And if! Sometimes people just complain that their siblings are taking longer in the tub. Simple details can show how uneven life can be. While some people are fighting for her life, others are fighting her. In that vision given by Elliott, it is possible to deal with something more than inequality; The real problem is how quiet people shut down when, when faced with a social problem, they begin to question their way of life.
A concrete visual element opens many more emotional pathways than abstract words alone. One of my strongest connections to Elliott’s article was the image he used throughout his article. The persuasive appeal of pathos identifies the audience’s self-interest, in this article his words are vivid and specific, but it’s not the same, as readers, to see exactly what a homeless shelter room looks like, a demo concrete of pathos. Create and approach the image of the room where this family lives among some others. An image can act on our pity, therefore, descriptions of painful or pleasant things.
Stories are often the best way to get close to an audience, as Andrea Elliott does in her article, an author named Sherman Alexie in her book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells a story, reaches his readers at the humor to evoke emotions such as joy and surprise, often triggering a strong friendship connection. In this book, Alexie presents himself as a hydrocephalic, not very rich, but an amazing artist. This author uses simple but engaging words to connect with his readers. This story of Alexie is a simple boy trying to live a better life between two different cultures while trying to discover his own potential. So how many invisible children are his story worth telling? His rhetorical style is based on the same storytelling that Andre Elliott presents, the difference being that Elliott’s article, while backed by data for credibility, connects to Alexie’s for pathos, in this emotional appeal with language. vivid and numerous details that only a story can present.
A perfect example of this can be the article The public obligations of intellectuals written by Michael Eric Dyson. He thinks that the problem with society is that it has become dumbed down, dumbed down to the point where people don’t take the time to learn about the problem. I believe that to 90 percent of the people who may have had access to Elliott’s article the problem may have seemed far away and out of reach; but an action taken can be as simple as taking a closer look, a look that can be more meaningful than simply turning away and pretending the problem isn’t there. If I compare Dasani’s economic poverty to quiet people just pretending to be out of trouble, I get a 50-50. The story is based on a pathetic fact through a homeless girl who has a lot of what many lack. More than taking action, the authors make a call that needs to be answered, and it can be as simple as putting yourself in someone else’s place and at least taking the moral of this fable.