- In my essay I used ethos by describing how I acted with the people around me. I explained and persuaded the readers that my environment either helped me get out of my comfort zone or did not help at all. In my essay I used pathos when i explained how silenced I felt when I was around family. I made sure to include instances where I felt down and helpless, those were real emotions I’m hoping the readers caught. Finally, in my essay I used logos when I mentioned why I was being raised how I was. I mentioned how the way I was raised was being passed down from past family members. I specified a bit of family history in order for the readers to understand my point.
- Summary: (SPOILER) In season 11, episode 21 “How to Save a Life” of Greys Anatomy is where the tragic death of one of the main character , Derek Sheperd, occurs. It was just another normal day for Derek, another day where he unintentionally saved a life. He was on his way to the hospital to visit his family when a car accident occurred right in front of him. Right after it happened he jumped out of his car to go help the victims. He successfully got them help before it was too late. Right after he continued on with his day until he was the one who go into a car accident, just a couple minutes after saving a family’s life. Except this time, he had no one to help save his life. After his wife, Meredith Sheperd, found out about his death she was devastated, not because her husband died… but because the doctors did not save him like they should have. Now she is left a widow mother knowing that her husband could have been saved.
- Analysis: Greys Anatomy is a TV show that mainly focuses on surgeons and the daily struggles they face while working in the hospital. They have to juggle their relationships with the work that they do everyday. In this particular episode they lost one of the best doctors the hospital, Grey Sloan Memorial, had. Derek Sheperd goes from having a completely normal day which included saving a life, to losing his life. Derek knew exactly what had to be done to him in order to save his life even while being in excruciating pain. If only he was able to verbally express it and tell the doctors what to do. They were not educated enough on how to deal with a trauma patient, they needed more practice. If they had enough practice they would’ve known what to do with Derek and saved his life. They soon figured out that if they hadn’t missed that one step before putting Derek through surgery that he would’ve been alive. They wouldn’t have suffered the consequences of killing someone who has saved hundreds of lives in his career, and who was a loving father/husband to his family.
- While writing the summary and analysis I noticed that it was a bit difficult to try to not include a summary in the analysis. Writing the summary was easier because I knew exactly what happened, therefore it was much simpler to write it down. However, I noticed that while writing the analysis on the episode it became a bit more complicated because I tried to thoroughly describe the scene without including a summary.
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Thanks for this, Karen! Your summary is full of excellent detail. I agree about the challenge of keeping summary out of analysis; it’s certainly OK to integrate summary and analysis in most cases but I wanted to encourage you to try to separate them here. And analysis tends to come easier if you have a sense of purpose behind it: if you sense a depth in your text/artifact you’re excited to explore. It seems like this episode affected you powerfully. One good place to start an analysis is: WHY did this affect me so much? Character deaths are always a big deal in a show, but how did the writers and showrunners and director create the particular experience that affected you so deeply?