Blog Post: Ethos, Pathos and Logos

As it says in the book about pathos "what you say and do can redirect their emotions and build a set of emotional responses that influence how the audience hears your words." In the video "More Beautiful You" by Jonny Diaz their are four line in the beginning of this song that most girls or women can relate to..."Little girl fourteen flipping through a magazine, Says she wants to look that way, But her hair isn't straight her body isn't fake, And she's always felt overweight". In those four lyric, most females have thought that way sometime in their life while looking through a magazine or TV show. He worded it just right so you can feel or have felt like that 14yr old girl is a that moment.

In the next verse he says a lot of thing that college females have went through in one way or another... "Little girl twenty-one the things that you've already done, Anything to get ahead, And you say you've got a man but he's got another plan, Only wants what you will do instead, Well little girl twenty-one you never thought that this would come, You starve yourself to play the part" These couple of lines are something that females can identify with and understand how she is feeling and why she is doing what she is doing. In high school and in college we come to know many females that are anorexic or bulimic. More so in college females compromise what they believe in to fit in or to get ahead. We are taught its all about you know. Empathy is one of the emotions I felt when I heard these verses. I wanted to help that girl and tell her that there is more to life and that she doesn't have to play that part and wish that she could see how other people see her.

Not only do the words bring out emotion but watching the video makes you feel a certain way as well. As the video starts out it shows a box of make-up and cups of blush and lipstick bushes. I know as a female, it made me think about getting prettied up and feeling good about myself. Then they start to get air bushed and their make up done. That brought on a different emotion of envy, such as "Oh wow, I want to look like that. I wonder what colors their wearing? Or I really like how they did that I should try that". But once their done and all the make up comes of and their back to being normal females, then it brings on another emotion of relief.

This video all together brings out all different kinds of emotion. Which I though was good for the message he was try to put out!