Francine Prose appeals to ethos in three ways; she adopts the role of a mother concerned for her children's education, a passionate reader that enjoys good literature, and a critic of books that are undeserving of their praise.
She starts her essay with such strong language in order to show how passionate and straightforward she is on her views. It does not risk putting off readers it just shows how passionate she is.
Prose sumps that high school students are impacted by how literature develops literary taste for life, an affinity for narrative, close reading skills, lessons in morals, teaches life lessons, and skill of tolerating.
She appeals to ethos when she cited around eighty high school reading lists and