Bringing Light to College Students Loneliness
Haley L. Earhart
ENG-105
Students enter college with high expectations due to the rumors spread by society. There are many things that college students do not expect when entering college, and one such thing is loneliness. Frank Bruni writes about something that he deems is often underestimated in the college freshman life, and that is the loneliness freshmen experience during, what is most students first time away from home. Bruni brings to light the extent of college loneliness through his effective use of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, in his The New York Times article “The Real Campus Scourge” (Bruni, 2017).
Bruni appeals to Ethos in many paragraphs throughout the article, and with a different …show more content…
Seeking to draw readers in emotionally, Bruni explains that, for college students, despite being “in a sea of people, they find themselves adrift. The technology that keeps them connected to parents and high school friends only reminds them of their physical separation from just about everyone they know best” (Bruni, para. 3). By including words and phrases to greater elaborate the situation college students are in, it increases the emotional draw to the article that would lack without the use of Pathos. Bruni gives the outside world a look at life from the college student perspective when explaining that “college isn’t sold to teenagers as just any place or passage. It’s a gaudily painted promise. The time of their lives! The disparity between myth and reality stuns many of them, and various facets of youth today — from social media to a secondary-school narrative that frames admission to college as the end of all worry — worsen the impact.” (Bruni, para.7). Bruni seeks to give the audience understanding of the struggles of college loneliness by strongly and effectively using Pathos throughout the entirety of the
Haley L. Earhart
ENG-105
Students enter college with high expectations due to the rumors spread by society. There are many things that college students do not expect when entering college, and one such thing is loneliness. Frank Bruni writes about something that he deems is often underestimated in the college freshman life, and that is the loneliness freshmen experience during, what is most students first time away from home. Bruni brings to light the extent of college loneliness through his effective use of Ethos, Logos, and Pathos, in his The New York Times article “The Real Campus Scourge” (Bruni, 2017).
Bruni appeals to Ethos in many paragraphs throughout the article, and with a different …show more content…
Seeking to draw readers in emotionally, Bruni explains that, for college students, despite being “in a sea of people, they find themselves adrift. The technology that keeps them connected to parents and high school friends only reminds them of their physical separation from just about everyone they know best” (Bruni, para. 3). By including words and phrases to greater elaborate the situation college students are in, it increases the emotional draw to the article that would lack without the use of Pathos. Bruni gives the outside world a look at life from the college student perspective when explaining that “college isn’t sold to teenagers as just any place or passage. It’s a gaudily painted promise. The time of their lives! The disparity between myth and reality stuns many of them, and various facets of youth today — from social media to a secondary-school narrative that frames admission to college as the end of all worry — worsen the impact.” (Bruni, para.7). Bruni seeks to give the audience understanding of the struggles of college loneliness by strongly and effectively using Pathos throughout the entirety of the