Discussion Questions: Week Nine

3). Pick one concept from the assigned reading this week, not already discussed, that you found useful or interesting and discuss it.


I will be discussing appeal to pity. Appeal to pity is define when a person uses an audience's feelings of guilt or when an audience feels sorry for the argument that being presented. For example, I work at a tutoring center. I tutor kids from 4 years old to probably 7 years old on their reading and comprehension. I remember this little girl she was probably 6 years old. Whenever she comes to my table to do her classwork she always take twenty minutes to finish the 8 pages. She on this particular day her classwork consist of reading a fairy tale. The center I work at whenever there is a story classwork assigned to the kids they want the kids to copy one sentence per page from the story. On that day she asked me if she could just read it instead of writing on every page. I automatically said no. Then she adds but my mom is sick so I have to do it fast so we could go home. I felt sorry for her so I allowed her to read the story only. Then the next day she comes she says the same story again. I thought about it and then I left her go. After the weekends was only and I went to the tutoring center to work. The little girl came again this time she says the same excuse again hoping that I would let her leave early. This time I went to talk to her mom and realized she has been lying that her was sick so she could go home. She unknowingly was using appeal to pity. Her my mom was sick and I felt sorry that she had to be here. So I allowed her daughter to leave early so her mom could go home and rest. But little did I know the little girl was just lazy and did not want to fully complete her work. 


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