Someone ! which excerpt from harriet tubman: conductor on the underground railroad is the best example of tubman using pathos? “sometimes she told them about thomas garrett, in wilmington. she said he was their friend even though he did not know them.” “she told them about frederick douglass, the most famous of the escaped slaves, of his eloquence, of his magnificent appearance.” “she had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going.” “she told them the story of william and ellen craft and how they escaped from georgia.”

The best example of Tubman using pathos is “She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going”.

Pathos is one of the three modes of persuasion. It is the appeal to the emotions of the audience in order to convince them of doing something or believing in something. In that way, a person that resorts to pathos evokes feelings in the audience by means of a convincing story or a passionate speech. This excerpt from Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad (“She had told them about the place where they would stay, promising warmth and good food, holding these things out to them as an incentive to keep going”) appeals to the emotions of the people to whom the woman is talking to because she is making a promise that involves warmth and good food in order to convince them to keep going.

the answers are:

1. dolores driscoll - b. first person minor

dolores is a minor character who happens to be driving the bus at the time of the accident. she narrates picking up each of the children and her last memory is the children being thrown around the bus.

2. billy ansel - a. first person major

billy loses his twins in the accident. he tells his own story, how he witnessed the accident and how he tried to the rescuers. he is a major character, as he is at the center of the story.

3. mitchell stephens - c. first person observer

mitchell enters the story after the accident. he is a lawyer who learns about the accident based on other characters observations. though he tells the story from a first person perspective, he is just an observer.

as for matcthing the message or lesson posted with the person who said them:

1."obviously, you can't control everything, but you are obliged to take care of the few things you can. i'm an optimist basically who acts like a pessimist. on principle. just in case." - dolores driscoll

2. "i could no longer believe even in life. . for me now the only reality was death." - billy ansel