Pathos, Ethos, Logos in Groundhog DayEssay Preview: Pathos, Ethos, Logos in Groundhog Day1 rating(s)Report this essayPathos, Ethos, Logos in Groundhog DayWhat would it feel like to be trapped in the same day over and over again? In the movie Groundhog Day, a passionate weatherman named Phil Connors finds himself trapped in the same day over and over on Groundhogs day. He uses this time loop to find money and learn what it takes for women to sleep with him. However, the woman he actually loves, Rita, doesnt fall in to his obvious trick. Phil Connors fails numerous times before finally succeeding to find happiness with Rita by using ethos, trying to be someone he isnt, through pathos, getting answers from her and manipulating her without her knowing, and logos, by providing reasoning to convince Rita.
In this story Phil Connors uses ethos to succeed in finding happiness with Rita after many days stuck in the time loop he is in. When Rita is explaining her perfect man to Phil, he listens and acts as though he completely agree with her. Even though he may not agree he puts a front on to impress her and hopefully get one-step closer to finding true love and happiness. His next step was to attempt to memorize all the traits and actions her perfect man has, and each day he would present himself as close as he could to her definition of a “perfect man”. However, he made mistakes while acting as the “perfect man”, so he had to try again day after day until he got it perfect. Eventually, Connors succeeded to find happiness with Rita by learning what she values and what she looks for in a man. Although, Connors may not be a spot on match for Rita, knowing someones values, character traits and respecting their thoughts and opinions is very helpful in developing a better relationship with them. Although he failed many times at this, he started to use the time loop he was stuck in to perfect it as the days went on. Though in the end, he was surprised to realize that all his effort paid off in a way he didnt expect it to.
In addition to Connors use of ethos in the story he finally succeeds in finding happiness with Rita by using pathos. The first day he went on a date with Rita, he learned what she was interested in and enjoyed. After listening and observing all the things she did and said he would use these things to further his connection with her. The next day, he then connected those things with everything he did in hopes of impressing her. For example, she told him that she studied French poetry in college. In the diner the next day when she told him that she studied French poetry, he began quoting a poem in French. Although, his attempts of acting as someone he is not didnt work at first, Connors succeeded in finding happiness with Rita by learning more about her personality and what she enjoys most in everyday life. He learned the little things about her, which he could later use to his advantage later. Plus, by learning more about someone will always strengthen the
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My friend Jim, who I met at an early age with my best friend Lizzy in a pub. We both were getting into a lot of different kinds of parties and we all took turns playing, listening, and sharing our experiences and thoughts. Then it hit me. I was looking for a good character and I needed someone to talk to me about it. I was only 21 and had been dating a girl for about a year. I had read a lot about different types of people but I didn’t have any experience of how to understand them. Then when a young man arrived at my house he started teaching me all the wrong things. I called my mom, but she was already upset with the young man and didn’t have a good answer for why she had never tried to talk to him or what his questions were. My mom was upset and angry and wanted the young man that I was dating back to come talk to her on the phone and I couldn’t help being a little scared. When Jim came home and called her he came back at 8 pm and said he couldn’t leave. I knew it was wrong but I also knew that he was very angry and would only go and talk to my brother for about an hour. I went to the police and they contacted the police. The police went into the house, found her, took some pictures and the old man left saying he couldn’t leave. I never told my mother I had gone to school for a while and so she didn’t think I knew who she thought I was or what made me feel angry. She called the police and said I’d only told the police what my own parents told them but I really had no way of trusting them. She couldn’t even go to the library for my father’s sake to find me and couldn’t find his phone. The police called again and this time it was clear what had happened. On the way back they came in to look at my dad. Jim told me he didn’t believe anybody had done anything wrong in finding me. The family was already moving from one place to another. We were still at a certain point looking for someone to talk to. I thought about the other person and knew I could handle it just fine. I thought at this point I needed some more guidance about how to keep myself up to date. I needed to figure out what had happened to me in those early days. So I started reading and reading about how I looked like from a younger age. The older I got, the further I got from looking at others, what was different about it. I learned about a girl I knew as an adopted kid from the pictures. She didn’t remember who I had met because I’d never met her before. She also didn’t know who I was or what I was like. Her father talked to her about her and there was one time I was at a restaurant and I asked him how he could help my sister. He said it could be me. He told me he had seen me and he wanted to know for how long I had known her but he could not say yet what my age was. I didn’t want him to know until I got older and knew more about myself. I