Sunday, October 28, 2012
TOW #7: Nannies and Children - Article
A New York nanny is suspected of murdering two children. Yoselyn Ortega was found lying on the bathroom floor next to the bodies of the two young children she was babysitting, with slits on her wrists and a stab wound in her neck. This article from CNN.com, a respected and reputable news site, has provided a harsh reality check for families trusting their nannies with their children's lives. Wayne Drash, a staff writer and senior producer of CNN, most likely wrote this article with the purpose of not only retelling a horrific crime that shocked the Upper West Side, but also of shedding light on an easily forgotten issue: nannies and children. He effectively makes the audience (more geared towards parents with young children in the care of nannies and babysitters) reflect upon their situation with the use of pathos. He evokes a sense of pity and sadness from readers such as parents in order to get his point across: are your children really as safe as you think? Drash also makes use of exemplum, the citing of an example or use of an illustrative story. Throughout the article, many different sources were cited when describing the children or the events that unfolded during that fateful night. The incorporation of both pathos and exemplum allowed for the audience to easily understand the childrens' personality and the mother's love for them. Drash strategically used pathos and exemplum in a way that they accentuated each other's rhetorical purpose. Overall, Drash accomplished his duty: inform people and force reflection upon themselves. He did a good job of subtley but effectively telling people to be careful when it comes to trusting their childrens' lives with a nanny or babysitter.
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