igital Age, Breaking Up Is hard to Do
Salvador Rodriguez is an author for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in writing about technology. In one of the articles he published, ‘In the Digital Age, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do’, he gave a personal story about how technology made his situation worse. Rodriguez and his fiance broke up weeks before their wedding. He used attitude, pathos, and person in his article describing how he handled. Attitude was mainly used to set the tone of the paper, but it was also used to describe his feelings about his situation. Pathos was used throughout the paper when he talked about his feelings to make the reader feel sorry for him. The last rhetorical device, person, was used throughout the paper, beings that it was written in first person.
In the first part of Rodriguez’s writing, he used attitude, pathos, and person to catch the reader’s attention. He proved that technology is very aware of its users. Digital devices have the ability to remember who is actively involved in someone’s life. Rodriguez …show more content…
Rodriguez tried disconnecting his ex from his life, but he could never get away from her, he stated, “it feels like no matter what I do, I run into her online” (416). Rodriguez then went on to explain how he was continuously hurt by the constanting running into of his ex. He explained how Google+ used Dropbox to save all of his photos of her, and even the video of his proposal to her. Rodriguez said, “he felt like he was getting punched in the stomach by Fight Clubs’s Tyler Durden,”(417) while he was going through and deleting his pictures and videos. In his most hurtful example, he mentioned a professional website they shared called LinkedIn. Rodriguez was deleting her from his account, when he saw her avatar, “LinkedIn nearly brought him to
Salvador Rodriguez is an author for the Los Angeles Times who specializes in writing about technology. In one of the articles he published, ‘In the Digital Age, Breaking Up Is Hard to Do’, he gave a personal story about how technology made his situation worse. Rodriguez and his fiance broke up weeks before their wedding. He used attitude, pathos, and person in his article describing how he handled. Attitude was mainly used to set the tone of the paper, but it was also used to describe his feelings about his situation. Pathos was used throughout the paper when he talked about his feelings to make the reader feel sorry for him. The last rhetorical device, person, was used throughout the paper, beings that it was written in first person.
In the first part of Rodriguez’s writing, he used attitude, pathos, and person to catch the reader’s attention. He proved that technology is very aware of its users. Digital devices have the ability to remember who is actively involved in someone’s life. Rodriguez …show more content…
Rodriguez tried disconnecting his ex from his life, but he could never get away from her, he stated, “it feels like no matter what I do, I run into her online” (416). Rodriguez then went on to explain how he was continuously hurt by the constanting running into of his ex. He explained how Google+ used Dropbox to save all of his photos of her, and even the video of his proposal to her. Rodriguez said, “he felt like he was getting punched in the stomach by Fight Clubs’s Tyler Durden,”(417) while he was going through and deleting his pictures and videos. In his most hurtful example, he mentioned a professional website they shared called LinkedIn. Rodriguez was deleting her from his account, when he saw her avatar, “LinkedIn nearly brought him to