A Day in Dasani’s Shoes
“Maybe Darwin was right, survival of the fittest, or the richest, or maybe I’m an angel awaiting heaven…”- A’isha Esha Rafeeq- Swan.
The Empire State, better known as New York, is not just the home of big buildings and high in fashion. The gruesome streets of New York is home to thousands of people who have no place to call home. In the New York Times published article, “Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life”, investigative reporter Andrea Elliot, introduces Dasani to the world as a homeless child with a sanguine future. In Elliot’s article, she informs us that there is thousands of homeless children who are woven into the cracks of New York, these children seem to be invisible to the eye, Dasani …show more content…
By investigating the day to day struggles homeless families face, Elliot is able to disclose the emotional trauma that the eleven year old goes through, that no one her age should be experiencing. Aside from all the negative, Elliot always seems to notice that glimpse of hope that Dasani has for her future. In my analysis, I will interpret how Elliot uses the strategy pathos to broadcasts what homeless families like Dasani’s go through living in these horrible living conditions. I will explain how even though there are many difficulties that can interfere with the hopeful future for a homeless tween living in the gruesome streets of New York, Dasani somehow still manages to have faith in …show more content…
She uses pathos to help the audience to understand how sad it is to be living in these horrible conditions. The Auburn Family Residence shelter is portrayed as the “place where mold creeps up walls and roaches swarm, where feces and vomit plug communal toilets, where sexual predators have roamed and small children stand guard for their single mothers outside filthy showers.” Elliot uses the detrimental details of the shelter to stimulate emotions into the mind of the readers. By evoking her readers’ emotions she is able to help them to feel disgusted by how awful the shelter is. Elliot used Dasani and her family’s homelessness as a demonstration, so the reader can feel sympathy about their living situation. In the article, Elliot explains how there is fights that often happen in and out shelter that can be a bit disturbing for young children to see. By acknowledging the fact that the family of eight young children is exposed to danger all the time, Elliot is presenting that these children do not have the main means of protection and safety in order to survive, that most children out of their situation have. Elliot applies pathos to the text in order to get the audience’s attention so that they can become more affected by what is taking place in homeless children’s life that should be seen as abnormal to the audience. Elliot lets the audience know that
“Maybe Darwin was right, survival of the fittest, or the richest, or maybe I’m an angel awaiting heaven…”- A’isha Esha Rafeeq- Swan.
The Empire State, better known as New York, is not just the home of big buildings and high in fashion. The gruesome streets of New York is home to thousands of people who have no place to call home. In the New York Times published article, “Invisible Child: Girl in the Shadows: Dasani’s Homeless Life”, investigative reporter Andrea Elliot, introduces Dasani to the world as a homeless child with a sanguine future. In Elliot’s article, she informs us that there is thousands of homeless children who are woven into the cracks of New York, these children seem to be invisible to the eye, Dasani …show more content…
By investigating the day to day struggles homeless families face, Elliot is able to disclose the emotional trauma that the eleven year old goes through, that no one her age should be experiencing. Aside from all the negative, Elliot always seems to notice that glimpse of hope that Dasani has for her future. In my analysis, I will interpret how Elliot uses the strategy pathos to broadcasts what homeless families like Dasani’s go through living in these horrible living conditions. I will explain how even though there are many difficulties that can interfere with the hopeful future for a homeless tween living in the gruesome streets of New York, Dasani somehow still manages to have faith in …show more content…
She uses pathos to help the audience to understand how sad it is to be living in these horrible conditions. The Auburn Family Residence shelter is portrayed as the “place where mold creeps up walls and roaches swarm, where feces and vomit plug communal toilets, where sexual predators have roamed and small children stand guard for their single mothers outside filthy showers.” Elliot uses the detrimental details of the shelter to stimulate emotions into the mind of the readers. By evoking her readers’ emotions she is able to help them to feel disgusted by how awful the shelter is. Elliot used Dasani and her family’s homelessness as a demonstration, so the reader can feel sympathy about their living situation. In the article, Elliot explains how there is fights that often happen in and out shelter that can be a bit disturbing for young children to see. By acknowledging the fact that the family of eight young children is exposed to danger all the time, Elliot is presenting that these children do not have the main means of protection and safety in order to survive, that most children out of their situation have. Elliot applies pathos to the text in order to get the audience’s attention so that they can become more affected by what is taking place in homeless children’s life that should be seen as abnormal to the audience. Elliot lets the audience know that