Storytelling: An Invaluable Argumentative Analysis

Heinrichs states," when you want to change someone's mood, tell a story."( Heinrichs 83). Storytelling is in an invaluable argument tool which uses pathos to convince an audience. The best way to appeal to another person's pathos is to create a story which makes the audience feel as if they have experienced it for themselves. This method of storytelling is much more convincing to someone else opposed to the typical second hand storytelling we know today. When trying to alter or influence someone else's pathos, name calling and other stereotypical methods pale in comparison because the human mind responds better to stories recounted from the first-person point of view rather than second hand . " the more the story the more it seems like a