invisiblechild
Andrea Elliott is a 2007 Pulitzer Prize-winning writer. She looks for the best stories even if they are the most complicated. According to the New York Times article about the author, she became passionate about revealing poverty and social problems. In 2013 as a feature story for the New York Times, following the publication of her article “Invisible Child”, she won the George Polk Award among other honors. With this article, she prompted city officials to remove 400 children from substandard shelters.
As part of her background, she faces the problem that there was no middle class in New York City, where financial pressures such as unemployment, health care, housing costs, and low wages are becoming more common. Andrea Elliott puts this social problem in the spotlight as a person; she has a name, a family and a dream, but no place she can call home. This “Invisible Child”, Dasani, goes out into the world to show people how ungrateful they are, myself included. This 11-year-old girl, seen through Elliott’s eyes, shows that Dasani is strong enough to wake up under the same roof as 22,000 other homeless people, the same roof where drugs are released as air, where oxygen is almost non-existent. arrives. enough, where the piles of unwashed clothes are bigger than her bed, and sexual predators are always naughty. Dasani keeps going, despite her daily struggle, her many responsibilities, her parental dysfunction, and her fear of being rejected by society. In my analysis, she would show how the author makes her readers wonder how lucky she is; she introduces this article through pathos, to indicate that this “invisible child” can still get up every day with enthusiasm, and yet say “That’s a lot on my plate.”
Andrea Elliott shows her version of what New York is without the luxury, accolades and wealth. That New York is related to commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, technology, education and entertainment; it opens its doors each year to approximately 55 million annual visitors. Sadly, according to the Coalition for Organizing the Homeless, 58,987 people will sleep tonight in a shelter in New York City, yes, New York itself. Year after year, this number increases and the solution becomes more remote. That is why Andrea Elliott, through pathos, plays an important role in the theme. Every word and every image in this article revealed the incompetence of society to analyze the problem more closely. This impressive and powerful article that Andrea Elliott shared provides a window into inequality. Whenever Elliott talks about homelessness, it’s easy to see how this issue, tragedy and harsh conditions aside, is bravely handled.
Elliott hints in every line that simple things can be more meaningful to people with less ease in life. The author empathizes with her readers in every detail. For example, a character in the story of the girl’s mother, Joanie, changed her life after the New York Times helped her find a job. She said that the best day of her life was her first day of work, they live from a dream that governs them, a reason to live. Normally a normal person who has everything will never classify her first day of work as the best of her life, most of the time she feels forced or miserable about it. Elliott touched me in a way that probably any article has before. The rhetorical analysis of Elliott’s pathos is her forte; her words to describe the situation are labels to describe a situation, for example: the clothes, the veneer of wealth and the desires are more emotional for the readers than the clothes.
The use of analogies, metaphors, and other figures of speech not only make Elliott’s article more interesting and compelling. Dasani’s own spirited intelligence and devotion to life is what Andrea Elliott offers her readers in poignancy. She sleeps with her seven brothers and her parents on six deteriorated mattresses. She’s not even close enough to the queen-size mattress where most New Yorkers spend their nights. They share a common bathroom, whose toilets are often clogged with vomit and feces. And yes! Sometimes people just complain that their siblings take longer in the bathtub. Simple details can demonstrate how uneven life can be. While some people are fighting for her life, others are fighting against her. In that vision given by Elliott, it is possible to deal with something more than inequality; the real problem is how quiet people shut down when faced with a social problem they begin to question their way of life.
A concrete visual element opens many more emotional pathways than abstract words alone. One of my strongest connections to Elliott’s article was the image he used throughout his article. The persuasive appeal of pathos identifies the self-interest of the audience, in this article his words are vivid and specific, but it is not the same, as readers, to see exactly what a homeless shelter room looks like, a demonstration concrete of pathos. Create and address the image of the room where this family lives among a few others. An image can act on our pity, therefore, descriptions of painful or pleasant things.
Stories are often the best way to approach an audience, just as Andrea Elliott does in her article, an author named Sherman Alexie in his book The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian tells a story, reaches his readers by humor to evoke emotions such as joy and surprise, and often triggers a strong friendship connection. In this book, Alexie presents himself as hydrocephalic, not very rich, but an amazing artist. This author uses simple yet engaging words to connect with his readers. This story of Alexie is a simple boy trying to live a better life between two different cultures while trying to discover his own potential. So how many invisible children are worth telling the story of him? His rhetorical style is based on the same storytelling that Andre Elliott presents, the difference being that Elliott’s article, while backed by data to build credibility, connects with Alexie’s for pathos, in this emotionally appealing language. vivid and numerous details that only a story can present.
A perfect example of this can be the article The Public Obligations of Intellectuals written by Michael Eric Dyson. He thinks that the problem with society is that it has become dumbed down, dumbed down to the point where people don’t take the time to know the problem. I believe that to 90 percent of the people who may have had access to Elliott’s article, the problem may have seemed far away and out of reach; but an action taken can be as simple as taking a closer look, a look that can be more meaningful than simply turning your back and pretending the problem isn’t there. If I compare Dasani’s economic poverty to quiet people who just pretend to be out of trouble, I get a 50-50. The story is based on a pathetic fact through a homeless girl who has much that many lack. Rather than taking action, the authors make a call that needs to be answered, and it can be as simple as putting yourself in someone else’s shoes and at least taking the moral of this fable.