By describing the situations she had to go through as a child she makes the reader feel sad. For instance, she talks about her struggles in the essay such as having to wear the same clothes every day and being left by her parents with people she didn’t even knew. Also, she had to learn how to take care of her baby sister at the age of ten. She had to figure out how to take care of an infant on her own because no one was there to teach her how to change a diaper or make a bottle. She also states that she once faced sexual abuse from one of her dad’s drunk friends when she was just five years old. Growing up in an abusive environment made her hard, guarded, and unable to trust anyone. She suffered from anxiety and panic attacks, too. By revealing her struggles through the essay, she makes herself relatable for the people who have experienced abuse themselves. Platt’s appeal to the audience with the use of pathos makes them feel sad for her but it also encourages them to take action against abuse so that other people do not have to go through the same thing that she went through during her …show more content…
For example, she gives the reader an illustration of how her parents used to get involved in physical fights. She states how her father would pick up her mom by the throat, shove her through a kitchen window by the hair, pull her back, and then push her out the door and onto the porch. In that situation, she was unable to do anything because her father would say that he would shoot them if they even tried to let her in. Platt’s use of illustrations and descriptions successfully appeal to the audience because it allows the reader to be able to imagine the position she was in. It shows the audience how big of a problem abuse is and how hard it is to overcome