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Why Does a Writer Make a Reader Feel?, Miles - A Taste For The Hunt (Who…
Why Does a Writer Make a Reader Feel?
Miles - A Taste For The Hunt
Who is he talking to specifically?
Farmers
people who are pro-farmers and the current system of breeding animals for the purpose of food.
What is his goal?
Trying to give his perspective on the subject to show that the system is wrong and ultimately to change peoples minds on the matter at hand.
What are his rhetorical strategies or way of going about this goal?
Naturalism
He bases his entire argument on the fact that the natural way of things is the best way of things
Emotional Appeal
How does He use emotion to his advantage?
He doesn't try to make the reader feel angry or sad, he really just wants to reader to question their ethics.
Questioning ethics is an emotional action because our individual ethical codes are mainly based off of our emotions and how we
Feel
when things are against what we think is right or just.
By forcing the reader to question their ethics puts them into an emotional state where Miles can then implant his own ideas to try to mold the reader's ethics to look more like his
How is his use of pathos special?
Miles doesn't use the basic emotions like happiness and sadness to his benefit like most writers do.
He focuses more on ethics as they pertain to emotional thoughts towards a strong subject.
Didion - Los Angeles Notebook
Who is she talking to specifically?
People unaware of how mechanistic humans are
Anyone she can reach
What is her goal?
To show people the fact that humans are mechanistic and we need to enjoy the emotions we can control.
uses emotion-based research to win over the reader
Indirectly messes with emotions because the realization argued in the piece triggers a sad emotional response from the reader. It is a feeling that makes you not want to do a certain thing.
How is her use of Pathos special?
She uses indirect sadness that feels like it was inflicted by the reader's own thoughts but really they were implanted by the material of the essay.