Week 3 Poulsen

In Thank You for Arguing Heinrichs tells us that we need to be able to tell our audience what we like, but at the same time to try and not show any bias for one side or the other.  I think that is what Safran Foer is trying to do when he mentions his hate and then sudden love for dogs.  This quick change in mind is becoming a common thing for Safran Foer and make him like able because he is able to appeal to everyone, in this case dog lovers and non-dog lovers.  This is also a way that Pathos is added to Eating Animals because he connects to our emotions by allowing us to share a common feeling about something.  However, I feel as if this is also hurting his Ethos because he so quickly changes his mind or changes how he feels about something.  I do not see this as a big problem though because the book is more of a way for us to take a different view on how animals play a part in our community and everyday life instead of Safran Foer trying to convince us to feel one way or another about animals.  All things considered I am really enjoying both Thank You for Arguing and Eating Animals and am really interested to see how Safran Foer uses the concepts that are mentioned by Heinrichs.  Now that I am paying more attention to these tools of rhetoric I am finding that Eating animals is surprisingly more entertaining.