Gabriela Aguilar Castillo- Week 13 Assignment

From reading these opinion pieces from my understanding an op-ed is when an author states their opinion and tries to sway the reader to a certain idea or opinion of the topic at hand. While reading the op-ed piece from Hartford Courant, “Here’s what to know about the dangers that go along with hosting Thanksgiving amid surging coronavirus infections: What’s safe? What’s not?,” the central idea of the op-ed in my perspective was to keep Thanksgiving celebration to your immediate household, instead of having a large gathering like one would in the past in order to protect ourselves and our loved ones. In this short op-ed piece, I did find it persuasive to keep gatherings to your immediate household because of the transportation needed to get there which was effective; people traveling from place to place are at higher risk of contracting COVID and spreading it. I also found it persuasive when the author added how he finds solace in a time like right now and state that we should see this as an opportunity and be with our close-knit family (immediate household) and that life will go on, which also seemed like the use of pathos as well.