Appeals To Pathos In Matt Richtel's Book 'A Deadly Wandering'

Arreola1 Crystal Arreola
English 101
Holmes Melissa
10 May 2018
Appeals to Pathos
Matt Richtel in his book “A Deadly Wandering” focusses more on making people realize that texting and driving is very bad. On chapter 21 Richtel shows a lot about Terryl’s life. She has successful kids. She realizes that technology plays a big role on peoples lives. The chapter also argues that television has a big impact on children causing them to be less interacted and paying less attention to important tasks. He is most effective in his appeals to pathos. Richtel addresses a wide audience in his book. He focusses mainly on teenagers who get into car accidents while texting and driving. Though, in chapter 21 of the book he focuses more with his audience by pointing out that when the television is on, parents and children disengage from one another. The purpose for this chapter is to explain how technology such as television affects children and parents. Children

Here Richtel creates a sense of anger to his readers. When he explains that kids who watch more television Richtel’s purpose is to make it seem like parents are not in control of how much television their kids are watching. Also Richtel wants to make people realize how bad a relationship between a parent and a child can be affected by television. It makes readers feel angry towards parents because they are affecting their own children. This emotional appeal is effective to Richtel’s argument because it motivates the reader to change. Readers don’t enjoy the feeling of anger after something they did. Richtel can make the reader change if he can cause that anger by telling them that children have attention problems by the age 7 for watching more