Pathos is the emotional claim which has the purpose to persuade the crowd by tempting to their feelings or emotions. This is something the author will experience beyond their feelings during the article. For example, “Such a plan could’ve worked on the San Joaquin, as well” is stated in the article, “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” to show something that the author feels. This is saying that he feels like the plan should not be allowed he knows that it will be an enormous amount of money to be spent. McEwen is saying that all the money that will be spent with this project is a waste, not only because it is money being wasted for a project that will not work because it is an exaggerated amount of money. Another example on how the author feels or acts to this project is, “The reality is, our federal and state governments will spend hundreds of millions - if not billions - of dollars in coming years on a program that will yield a salmon exhibit instead of a sustainable fishery” by stating this he is saying that we will not get benefited over this right now and it will start getting worse by years. This project is a waste of money that will not really help anyone it is going to have poor results over time. This project will only benefit the salmon not anything else with no positive outcomes. As said above, those examples just show that The project will cause a big emotional
Pathos is the emotional claim which has the purpose to persuade the crowd by tempting to their feelings or emotions. This is something the author will experience beyond their feelings during the article. For example, “Such a plan could’ve worked on the San Joaquin, as well” is stated in the article, “River Plan Too Fishy for my Taste Buds” to show something that the author feels. This is saying that he feels like the plan should not be allowed he knows that it will be an enormous amount of money to be spent. McEwen is saying that all the money that will be spent with this project is a waste, not only because it is money being wasted for a project that will not work because it is an exaggerated amount of money. Another example on how the author feels or acts to this project is, “The reality is, our federal and state governments will spend hundreds of millions - if not billions - of dollars in coming years on a program that will yield a salmon exhibit instead of a sustainable fishery” by stating this he is saying that we will not get benefited over this right now and it will start getting worse by years. This project is a waste of money that will not really help anyone it is going to have poor results over time. This project will only benefit the salmon not anything else with no positive outcomes. As said above, those examples just show that The project will cause a big emotional