Jeremy Kahn uses Pathos the most in the piece by drawing the audience’s emotions by going through John Dowery’s situation of turning his life around. He opens the piece by giving background on Dowery’s life and letting the audience know what he is doing to turn his life around. He uses the examples of Dowery going through drug classes, getting a steady job, coming clean about what he witnessed, being moved from his neighborhood, missing his family and even to the point of him being killed because of his situation. Kahn spends a large portion of this article focusing on Dowery which weakens his argument because he is not able to branch out. He uses the pathos to make his audience go from not liking John Dowery because he is a convicted felon to making us feel bad for Dowery because he is trying to turn his life around. Because Kahn focuses on Dowery so much during the article it limits him from branching out of Baltimore neighborhoods as well. This would be good for people who live in Baltimore or even Maryland but for the audience outside of these places they are left with the question of is this really that big of a deal where I live? Kahn’s argument would have been much more effective if he was able to give other examples throughout the United States.
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