Rhetorical Analysis
In Nicholas Kristof’s column, “Mothers In Prison” the purpose was to explain the negative effects of women’s imprisonment on their children and government funding in order to decrease the imprisonment of women for simple crimes. With the growth of women’s imprisonment in the United States many children have been negatively affected because their caregiver can not care for them through a cell. This article is effective in using ethos, logos, and pathos to convince American women of the negative effects of women’s imprisonment in the United States. Throughout the column, Kristof uses pathos often to relate to American women “imprisonment of women has heartbreaking collateral damage”. Pathos helps to relate American women to the women in jail because no matter the situation losing a mother is emotionally difficult. To credit his claims, Kristof uses ethos, ““There’s a devastating impact on the children,” said Amy Santee of the George Kaiser Family Foundation” The George Kaiser Family Foundation is a foundation focused on equal opportunities for all children, which is what Kristof wants for children affected by their mothers being imprisoned. Kristof also uses logic to persuade American women with facts, “Russell Sage Foundation found that incarceration of a family member is associated with a 64 percent decline in household assets, magnifying poverty and the race gap in America”. When a child’s mother is incarcerated they have a higher race of remaining impoverished because he mother is present to support the child actively. The growth in mass incarceration of women is only leading to negatively affecting the women's children and government funding.
In Nicholas Kristof’s column, “Mothers In Prison” the purpose was to explain the negative effects of women’s imprisonment on their children and government funding in order to decrease the imprisonment of women for simple crimes. With the growth of women’s imprisonment in the United States many children have been negatively affected because their caregiver can not care for them through a cell. This article is effective in using ethos, logos, and pathos to convince American women of the negative effects of women’s imprisonment in the United States. Throughout the column, Kristof uses pathos often to relate to American women “imprisonment of women has heartbreaking collateral damage”. Pathos helps to relate American women to the women in jail because no matter the situation losing a mother is emotionally difficult. To credit his claims, Kristof uses ethos, ““There’s a devastating impact on the children,” said Amy Santee of the George Kaiser Family Foundation” The George Kaiser Family Foundation is a foundation focused on equal opportunities for all children, which is what Kristof wants for children affected by their mothers being imprisoned. Kristof also uses logic to persuade American women with facts, “Russell Sage Foundation found that incarceration of a family member is associated with a 64 percent decline in household assets, magnifying poverty and the race gap in America”. When a child’s mother is incarcerated they have a higher race of remaining impoverished because he mother is present to support the child actively. The growth in mass incarceration of women is only leading to negatively affecting the women's children and government funding.