"Daddy come home"

For this weeks blog I wanted to find something that held emotions. A topic that anyone could understand is the feeling you get when you are separated from your family for a long period of time. Now, something not all of us can relate to is the feeling of being separated from a family member because they are away at war. While I was scrolling through facebook passing time I can across a post that included a imagine that almost brought me to tears because immediately I put myself in the families position and imagine my father and I being separated.

Pathos, by definition is represents an appeal to the audience's emotion.
Emotional appeal can be accomplished in a multitude of ways: by a metaphor or story telling, common as a hook or by a general passion in the delivery and an overall emotion and sympathies of the speech or writing as determined by the audience. (as defined on Wikipedia)

this image creates a pathos that brings life to a sad and sympathetic emotion. First you feel sympathy for the family, you cant imagine the sort of daily struggles they must face. Then, you feel sadness. You put yourself in their place, whether it is someone close to you or yourself.

This image brought forward many, but not nearly as many comments, in fact only 11 currently, although it has been shared 54 times and has received 4490 "likes" Most of the comments bring light to the emotions that were brought forward by the post.

 



This was the general atmosphere. But with every crowd there is one person who feels the need to make things difficult.

 

 

This one comment, change the pathos momentarily. It brought forward anger and resentment. As we looked at "trolling" in our Wednesday task, we learnt that many people do this just to create havoc in an environment. As you can see above, this one individual did get a rise out of a few individuals. But, it quickly returned back to its original pathos.