Summary Of Gaby Rodriguez's The Pregnant Project

Pathos is the written art of persuasion that is used to invoke emotion, and action in an audience. The CDC effectively pulls the emotions out of its audience with the picture of innocent little children displayed with a very troublesome disorder (ADHD, 2013). The author reaches within, to invoke the audience into action. Invoking emotions such as pity, sympathy, sadness, and even anger, which are certain to get people to set up and take notice. These photos of the children effectively use emotions to show how the disorder of ADHD works. There is one photo that speaks the loudest of the disorder of ADHD. That photo shows the distraught look of a child, as his parents are talking with the doctor (ADHD, 2013). The CDC very effectively caught the scene with its camera lens, capturing that distraught look in the child’s eyes, helping the audience see the actions of ADHD. The smile on the face of the parents and the doctor, will bring the audience into a sense of comfort and hope, pertaining to the

He likes to reference the 2008 presidential campaign and depending on the political opinions of the reader it can conjure up many different emotions in some reader. By using pathos he gets people more interested in the topic of the article by involving their emotions and making it easy to relate to through the use of recent events. He uses an example of John McCain choosing not respond to rumors which he later explains is the wrong way to go about combatting a rumor. In the article he writes,“When John McCain, during the 2000 Republican primaries, was plagued with rumors that he had fathered an illegitimate child, for the most part he opted not to engage with them at all” (513). The fact that this example can be agreed with or disagreed with can bring emotions along from the reader.

I read The Pregnancy Project by Gaby Rodriguez. The book is about how Gaby overcame stereotypes and expectations put on her when she faked her pregnancy for a senior project as a social experiment to see how her peers would react. I enjoyed reading this book because Gaby wrote in such a way that I would find myself thinking of past experiences that could relate with what she was talking about. After I read, “One of the best things a role model can do is show how to get through the tough times and live a good life despite setbacks and hardships, because nobody gets through this life without scars along the way.” (Rodriguez 206), a lot of thoughts came to mind. One of the first thoughts came to my mind was my role model and how even though he went through a lot of tough times he changed his attitude and lives a good life. I also thought about myself and how even though I might me having the worst day I should always be the best that

In the essay "What Pregnant Women Won't Tell You - Ever", Elyse Anders talks about the downsides of pregnancy. Some of which I wasn't aware that could happen but other I was. I was aware of common symptoms like having a trouble staying awake, morning sickness, frequent urination, pooping and not being able to drink. But, I was not aware of the others.

Pathos appeals to the reader’s emotions by using emotional stories and imagery. Pathos strategies are often used to grab and hold the reader’s attention. Emotional or personal stories give the reader an opportunity to emotionally relate to the story, and allows them to be emotionally connected. An emotionally connected reader is more interested in the story that a reader who is not emotionally connected.

In the motion picture The Pregnancy Pact a group of high school girls, no older than sixteen, make a pact to become pregnant. Their goal, instead of graduating together, was to have only girls and raise them together. Throughout the movie the girls make references to the pregnant Jamie-Lynn Spears and the movie Juno stating that being fifteen or sixteen and pregnant was the most glamorous thing that could happen to them and not one thing would top being pregnant. This didn't end that way though. Instead the girls realized that having a child so young is not a walk in the park. The media’s perception of teenage pregnancy has changed over time from being a social taboo to a glamorous after school activity. This change

In the book The Pregnancy Project, Gaby Rodriguez changes a lot. She is a 17 year old student in high school. Gaby is a young girl from Washington. She has decided to do an incredible project which leaves people very surprised. Gaby was raised by a single mother. She is the youngest kid out of eight and all siblings have been teen parents as well as her mother. Since they have all been teen parents, Gaby is now expected to follow the tradition of becoming pregnant as a teen.

Pathos is used very effectively in Seth Davis’s article. By using pathos he is helping to expose the purpose of the article in a way that you wouldn’t think of before. Davis states “As the father of three children under the age of eight, I can only pray that someone “exploits” my sons someday

The rhetoric device, pathos, creates an appeal to emotion in order to gather support for the author's purpose. The novel demonstrates pathos through personal anecdotes depicting the struggles of survival on low wages. In particular, the description of the Parente family, who after a series of unfortunate events found themselves barely able to survive. Both the parents are jobless and unable to gain much help because they cannot afford the requirements of certain programs, Medicaid requires an expensive MRI of the injury before aid can be given. They're seven year old daughter highlights their state of poverty in her class ”Brianna's wish was for her mother too find a job because there was nothing to eat in the house”(233). The inability of a child to eat creates a feeling of sadness for the family and their situation while also demonstrating the

She uses pathos to generate an emotional response from the reader because the grades improved and fighting decreased. This would be a good article to use in a paper to show another viewpoint about how dropping sports can improve a

Pathos commonly found throughout the novel. One sympathizes with Enrique and his endeavours in his life. As a young child he had to deal with his mother leaving, giving him abandonment issues at an early age.

pathos is very effective overall, it gives the reader the ability to relate to the hardship Rodriquez must endure every day. These examples are not always obvious though, small subtle uses of pathos can be just as effective, for example when Rodriguez says, “I am alone in my brown study,” even though very short, this quote evokes pity and a desire to be with Rodriguez from the reader (38). Pathos does not have to be short to be effective, when Rodriguez first describes seeing snow he says, “The light queered. The sky turned “gunmetal gray” as in books. My mouth opened. Only then, snow.” This quote is significantly longer than the first, yet it still provokes the reader's emotions (147). One feels the innocence Rodriguez displays at the new sight, similar to that of a child, and can't help but to smile. This quote gives the reader joy as they are provided with the opportunity to experience snow all over again. Both quotes, though very different, create emotional responses in the reader and help to further arguments Rodriguez makes throughout the book. Rodriguez’s appeals to pathos prove to be very effective, but work even better when paired with Rodriguez’s almost messy writing

Chavez’s main rhetorical strategy was pathos. Pathos led to how the story impacted the reader’s beliefs; pathos is used to affect the feeling of the reader. It is effective because it allows the reader to connect with what is being said. Chavez uses the pathos argument to show American’s feelings, “the American people and people

The character Gaby Rodriguez in the novel The Pregnancy Project, written by Gaby Rodriguez and Jenna Glatzer, changes throughout the years and understands what it is like to be living in a world of stereotypes. Living in a family filled with past generations of teen pregnancies, Gaby was often told she would end up like her sisters. From other people’s perspectives, this was a family tradition. As her senior project, she faked a pregnancy to get reactions from her friends, family, and the community to see how she would be treated. Gaby went through many hardships to understand what a teen mom has to deal with on a day to day basis.

Maya Angelou said, “To describe my mother would be to write about a hurricane in its perfect power. Or the climbing, falling colors of a rainbow” (Wanderlust 1). The relationship a mother has with her child transcends all other relationships in complexity. Maternity largely contributes to the female identity in part because the ability to sexually reproduce is uniquely female. With this ability often comes an unparalleled feeling of responsibility. That is, mothers experience an inherent desire to protect their children from the world and guide them through life. Serving as a child’s protector then transforms a woman’s perspective, or the female gaze. While these protective instincts often arise naturally, they are also reinforced by the ideas society’s perpetuates about motherhood. Globally, women are expected to assume the roles of wives and mothers. The belief that motherhood is somewhat of a requirement assists in the subjugation of women and reinforces a plethora of gendered stereotypes. While some women enjoy the process of childrearing, others feel that having a family comes at an irreparable cost: losing sight of oneself. In response to the polarized views surrounding maternity, several authors have employed different writing techniques to illustrate the mother-child dynamic. Through the examination of three narratives, spanning fiction and non-fiction, one is able to better define maternity and the corresponding female gaze in both symbolic and universal terms.