The Education Of Dasmine Cathy By Brad Wolverton Analysis

Being a college student can be difficult. High school teachers try to prepare the students before they begin college. They try to prepare them by informing them that it will be a lot of work to do, and teaching them about time management, but after all the preparedness it still be difficult. College is difficult because normally when people enter college, they are consider an adult. Being an adult requires responsibility. For example, the student might have to work, pay rent, and pay car note. Having a lot of responsibility as a college students will cause anxiety. A college student should have support from family members so they can just focus on their work. An author name Brad Wolverton wrote an article “The education of Dasmine Cathey.
He uses pathos appeals. At the beginning, he created an emotional feeling. The author showed the reader that Dasmine freshman year he was committed to do his work. The author informs us by stating his grades, and how he use to read books every night. He stated that after practice Dasmine will read ten books while his friends laugh and play. Then the author said the following year his life started to unravel. Dasmine found out he was about to be a father of two. His mom moved out of town and his father lived in Mississippi. The author added to the pathos by informing the reader that he had to take care his family and others. Stating, “Dasmine looks after far more people than that.” The article said that Dasmine had to rise up before five to take siblings in friends around before he goes to class. It is hard to fulfill dreams when a person has a lot of responsibility. In the beginning of the article it shows a picture of Dasmine with a tattoo that says “Family First.” Under the picture is a caption that reads “It’s a reflection of his many commitments outside college.” That caption means that he put his family and friends before him. Otherwise, he likes football but if his family or friends needed help he would rather help them. Therefore his grades were poor because his family always needed help. The article said, because he barley came to class his GPA dropped below 2.0 which
He introduces the different advisory and tutors. The author introduced the people to show that he did his work on the investigation of Dasmine. Introducing them also showed proof that Dasmine was unprepared for college. The author proved his point that distraction is the cause of college students to fail by quoting a statement. He quoted a statement from a man name Joseph P. Luckey. Luckey said, “I was like holy crud, I can’t believe how many kids are reading below a seventh- grade level.” I believe the quote help strengthens the argument because it gives the reader proof that Cathey was