Post #13-Dani Reed

            I find the book Maus by Art Spiegelman more similar to Eating Animals by Safran Foer than The Shallows by Carr. I think that even though Eating Animals does not directly have pictures on the pages like the comic strips in the book Maus does, they still both use images to create pathos. In Spiegelman’s book he provoked emotions from me as a reader through some somewhat gruesome images about events in the holocaust. He also used the facials on Vladek’s face to portray different emotions whether his eyebrows were furrowed when he was tense or if they were softened as he remembered emotional times back in the holocaust. This book was neat because the rhetoric was portrayed through mostly visual images. In Foer’s book, he described images that made me just as queasy as the images in Maus about the holocaust. Foer used words to piece together disturbing images in his readers minds to show how wrong it is what people do to animals in order to make money by selling them as food. The way they treat them and abuse them is sickening and I know this from the way Foer explained it in his book. He used pathos as well to provoke the sad emotion from his readers because after reading certain things many people in our class said they felt sympathy for the animals being tortured. Both of these books are shedding light on terrible situations that some people may not know all of the truth on. They each use pathos to make you upset for the humans and or animals being tortured through imagery, just in different ways.