Ethos Pathos Logos In To Kill A Mockingbird

Ethos- Uses authors, economists, students and even cites herself, this helps establish her as an expert and makes her arguments more believable.

Pathos- Conveys feelings of confusion and sadness that students feel after realizing that they wasted time and money on college. She also uses this to plant doubts in readers minds about their own feelings..

Logos- Bird utilizes many stats to prove her numerous points. She uses these to portray a large risk, low reward scenario. .

Repetition- (P1) In the introductory paragraph Bird uses repetition of the word “because” to help express the importance of every point of view that she is making. For every transition from the point to the support of the claim.

Simile- (P6) “To keep their mammoth plants

and it’s good for them, like eating spinach. Some, of course, learn to like it, but most wind up preferring peas.” Bird is comparing college to some vegetable that not many like, spinach. By doing this she is driving home her point to the reader, that college is not for everyone, it's not for most people. By comparing it to spinach, we are getting a flashback to childhood of our parents trying to force us to eat something we didn’t like as a child Thus, leaving a bad taste in our mouth when it comes to college.

Anecdote- (P28)- Bird uses this story about a young man who would be better off in investing his money and putting it away in the bank collecting interest instead of wasting it on a college degree. This helps Bird convince her audience that college doesn’t always lead to more financial success in the future or is a good investment for a young person.

Logos- (P32) “...seems to be the fact that men from high-status families have higher incomes that men from low-status families even when they enter the same occupations, have the same amount of education, and have the same test scores.” This quote is accomplishing the task or proving the point that bird makes that having a high income is not the result of an education. Higher wage has more to do with family, upbringing and status than it does with

This not only helps strengthen ethos but it also emphasizes her argument that colleges fail on more that the economic front. They fail to prepare students for life.

Logos (stats)- (P41) “The department of labor, for instance, estimates there will be 4,300 new jobs for psychologists in 1975 while colleges are expected to turn out 58,430 B.A’s in psychology this year.” “...Of 30 psych mayrs who reported back to Vassar what the were doing a year after graduation in 1972, only 4 had jobs in which they could use their degree.” This shows the audience that universities are definitely not preparing the students for the real world. If they were, we wouldn't’ have this big of a discrepancy in the number of jobs vs. degrees.

Parallel Structure- (P50-52) “The liberal arts are a religion in every sense of the term.” “If the liberal arts are a religious faith, the professors are the priests.” This brings emphasis to the fact that the primary concern is not education, but to promote themselves. Hints at how colleges and churches have a long history of