They Say, Drugs Kill

The thesis is the very first sentence, because it tells exactly what you should expect in the article. The article continues with the author talking about a traumatic experience when she saw someone die in front of her during a party. The details are excellent and the emotion from all the other people at the party are conveyed well. The real question is what was she doing during this whole ordeal, writing?

There was mostly pathos in this article, mostly because it was brought up from a real life, traumatic experience that she underwent during her lifetime. She showed ethos because of how most people react to "accidents" such as when a person dies from an allergy from a drug, but it wasn't from the drug itself. There was no shape of logos because most of the paper was written from her own perspective and biased opinion. The article was strong and could definitely pull a reader in, but I couldn't see it being a persuasive essay. The fact that almost all of the article was ver story made me believe it was just a story and not tell me to do anything.