Man vs. Gorilla

“Man Dies After Secret 4-year Battle with Gorilla”. I was immediately enticed to read the article up until the very last word of the title. Even then, it was bizarre enough to peak my interest to read the article. Anyone that is skimming through a website would have their attention diverted when they see that someone has died. It is a single person that died so that one person or the means of his death must have some kind of importance is headlined that way. David Seaborne was a man from Roanoke, Virginia who unfortunately died “unexpectedly” after his long four year battle with a gorilla. The article oozes with pathos and a few unpredictable logos. Not once does the article cease with the use of pathos by addressing the hardships that the man has endured and the sorrow that his loved ones where burdened with, both during and after, his four year strife. Many people can relate with how he kept his hardships a secret, in order to independently achieve his goal. As a loving husband and father of three, one’s heart strings are pulled to the relentless nature of this man’s goal to vanquish the gorilla in his basement. It is a serious concern to this day. Although Seaborne has passed, Dr. Patterson supplies expert insight to the legitimacy of this situation with mind boggling logos. In fact, it was confirmed that one in every twenty nine million suffer from gorilla difficulties. Therefore, there are an estimated total of eleven people in the United States that must combat gorillas in their basements.  Davis Seaborne was one of the unfortunate few that have lost that battle. The even scarier fact is that in the Congo, this problem is up to one in every eighty; that sums up to a total of 843,875 people. Mrs. Seaborne now runs the David Seaborne Foundation to spread awareness and means of prevention to this dilemma, that Dr. Patterson now informs to be hereditary. The ethos are prevalent. It’s wrong to neglect the dangers that have surfaced and to not establish awareness.

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One Response to Man vs. Gorilla

  1. Lindsey Grubbs says:

    Nice work here picking up on pathos as the guiding force in this Onion article! The way that the writer discusses death-by-gorilla is, except for that final word, almost identical to what we might hear about a “four year battle with cancer,” or something far more expected–dripping with pathos!

    It would be helpful to get more of a sense of how the fact that the article is a joke would alter how you talk about it: the audience isn’t really supposed to believe that this man died from fighting a gorilla–rather, we’re supposed to find the story ridiculous. Why? At what point does it become clear that we’re reading a satirical post?

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