“Home is the starting place of love, hopes and dreams ”, is a quote many people are familiar with and can relate to. In the article “Everyone Needs a Place to Call Home”, Gerardo Roman uses ethos, logos, and pathos to persuade his audience that Americans benefit from affordable homes and lawmakers should prioritize helping the current housing crisis. One of the three important techniques Gerardo Roman uses is Ethos. Throughout the text, Roman not only gives accurate information but gives them from trustworthy sources including himself. In the text the author states, “I work as an outreach worker providing services to help the housing insecure” By saying this the author lets the audience know that he can be trusted when it comes to things like …show more content…
One might already recognize that people not having a place to call home is sad, but the way Gerardo Roman specifically evokes readers' emotion in this article can make one feel melancholic and disconsolate. In the text the author starts out the article by saying, “Our fondest memories, loving relationships and reprieve from the outside world occur inside our homes thus making it the foundational structure that encapsulates health and prosperity.” Then A few paragraphs later it states, “In addition to facing hardship, many Americans are facing food hardships…An additional one in five children live in a household that does not have enough to eat.” The focus of this single technique of ethos is Roman’s word choices. In the beginning he evokes the emotion of heart warmth and love because when one thinks about home and happy memories that is something a lot of people feel. He uses positive words like “health and prosperity” to get readers that can relate to really feel a sense of mellowness and gratefulness. Then as the reading went on there was a shift in the tone of the text. He mentions children starving and not having enough to eat. His mention of children really is what draws the reader's in because many people see children as innocent and to know and see them starving, really pulls on peoples’ heart strings. There was such a huge shift going from love and heart warmth to child starvation. It is safe to feel a sense of
Poverty is difficult to fully understand without experiencing it directly. Sociologist Matthew Desmond attempts to provide a different perspective on this issue through the lens of those struggling with poverty. This ethnography covers the lives of eight families and many others living in the College Mobile Home Park, a poverty-stricken area in Milwaukee, one of the poorest cities in the U.S.; Desmond lived there for one year, diligently taking notes and recording the experiences of the people he encountered. In Evicted, Matthew Desmond describes the interconnectedness of housing and poverty and highlights the exploitation of the poor through the scope of eviction. Throughout the book, he describes the factors contributing to the cyclical nature
This book immerses the reader into the lives and struggles of individuals and families in Milwaukee during the 2008/2009 economic crisis, where many people lost their homes leading to increased cases of suicides and depression. When a person who lives in extreme poverty and depends on food stamps is evicted, he or she faces innumerable challenges that may include falling into deep depression. The author’s own parents were also the victims of eviction, and he helped them move out. As such, he spent several months living among the evicted families, and this made him understand the challenges that those families went through in shelters and poor
Pathos dominates the article when Ehrenreich allows her nephews mother in law, grandchildren, and daughter to move into her house. The situation focuses on pathos because in Ehrenreich’s personal story she includes that “Peg, was, like several million other Americans, about to lose her home to foreclosure” (338). She is effective in her writing by appealing to the readers’ emotions through visual concepts and personal experiences. When I read the article, I felt emotional because the working poor are not fortunate to know if they will have a house or food the next day. I agree with Ehrenreich in which the poor are as important as the wealthy group who get more recognition.
His writing is simple and direct, which makes the events he describes all the more scary as he successfully gets his point across. His tone is very gloomy and reflective, which reflects the seriousness of the story. He also uses symbolism and metaphor to get his message across, such as the image of darkness representing the evil and brutality of the Nazis. "I had ceased to pray. How I sympathized with Job!
Like many before her, she carried her poverty into adulthood, doing odd jobs with periods of homelessness and hunger. But more disturbing is that poverty is now starting to take its toll on her children, especially her eldest daughter. Metcalf says she recently tried to run away from home in the middle of the night.” This article appeals to emotion by focusing on metcalf and her story.
Millions of Americans found themselves homeless, as they were evicted from their homes because they were unable to pay their mortgages or rent. They struggled to find places to live. “Marriages and births…plummeted.” Low self-esteem was commonly see among fathers in the family unit. Being unable to provide adequate shelter, food, and other necessities was truly burdensome, and over time, took a toll on the self-worth of these men.
The essay presents how the concept of home has changed overtime for the writer. He uses his life experiences in Brooklyn and Harlem New York, and then Miami, Florida to address these changes and expose the connections he made to each particular house. First, he lived on a building in Brooklyn. Then, he moved to Harlem, New York where he established his Cuban-Dominican identity and learned the diversity of the word home. When he moves to Miami he encountered the feeling of cultural shock and gave an even more valuable meaning to his New Yorker identity.
The hopeless tone the author creates through the detailed
Mantsios’ compares the profiles of different Americans lifestyles in his text and develops the idea that an individual’s class standing can affect their livelihood in detrimental ways, “The lower one’s class standing, the more difficult it is to secure appropriate housing, the more time is spent on routine tasks of everyday life, the greater is the percentage of income that goes to pay for food and other basic necessities, and the greater is the likelihood of crime victimization” (293). Mantsios explains that one’s class standing can affect the chances of survival and success. Ehrenreich describes her own housing experiences as a low income worker. To reduce her overall costs and to obtain a second job, Ehrenreich moves closer to Key West. Ehrenreich has just enough money to pay the rent and deposit on a tiny trailer at the Overseas Trailer Park.
His description of the setting creates a calm peaceful mood because of the way he uses words and figurative language. He makes this place serene and human less and then George and Lennie come in and make it their “home”. We can sense the tone of the novel even from the very beginning, when we learn that the setting of the story is the town of Soledad. Already you can set the tone: doomed, sad, tragic, and helpless. Being that the novel's characters are field workers, we will not expect the language to be complex.
I also agree with the opinion that suffering might never end, like the novel indicates through imagery at the very end. The author manages to combine happy moments with sad ones even though the sad ones takes the larger share. In addition, he accomplished his aim of having an audience that is glued to the book all along sine it is both engaging and informative. The author has a perception that the world is composed of more bad things than the good ones. This novel will be important to me as I explore the themes of post-apocalyptic fears and human struggles.
Frequently, we just pass by people and look down on them since they have no home; but who is to say they don’t have a home? Home is not the house you live in or the country you belong to. It is a place that incites certain feelings and those feeling are what makes a place home. The people on the streets with no “home” may simply find that anywhere in the world is where they call home. Home has two specific set of values that make it more than just a place which are privacy, and safety.
He basically highlights the main ideas and the main frame of the children’s innocence in his novel. There were some critics who mainly criticize his works about the mentioning the innocence of the children
Julio Cortázar’s short story, "House Taken Over," presents a case on the consequences of isolationist values as well as the dangers of acting in self-interest. Cortázar carefully and deliberately lays out literary elements such as symbolism and metaphor, as well as characterization, to argue that the pursuit of personal gain at the expense of others can have disastrous implications for both individuals and society as a whole. " House Taken Over" tells the story of two siblings who lived in each other's comfort, rarely leaving their home since they never saw the need to. They were rich, with more than enough money coming in from their family’s farms to live comfortably.
He descriptively tells the readers he grew up in a state of chaos due to war and that he did not have a peaceful childhood compared to normal kids. While he was afraid of the soldiers who are “strolling the streets and alleys” (line 8), the untroubled child in him was afraid of the “boarded-up well in the backyard” (line 4). Here, he contrasts the idea of home and foreign place by presenting different experiences that a child faced. He is showing an event that caused him to have fragmented self. He hints the readers lack of personal belonging because he has experienced war in his early youth.