Bullying in Schools Essay | Cram

Textual Analysis
“How To Stop Bullying In Classrooms And Schools” by Phyllis Kaufman Goodstein is an informative book that provides insight to bullying, how to stop it, and how to help children who have been affected by it. Bullying is defined as “using superior strength or influence to intimidate (someone), typically to force him or her to do what one wants.” As everything does, bullying comes with underlying reasons and solutions. The authors’ serious tone and diction makes it easy to stay focused on the real problem, and not veer off topic. Logos, pathos, ethos, and kairos are main literary devices authors use to keep a reader interested. Goodstein uses many logos such as statistics for a logical appearance. Ethos are used by using many citations to verify Goodsteins’ credibility. She also uses pathos within the statistics to pull out emotions from the reader. By using so many statistics and citations Goodstein makes it easier for the reader to use their imagery to create an unhappy and undesirable image of a bullied child.…