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Aishu Anil Mr. Hackney Rhetoric 101 2 October 2013 'The Walking Dead': Dead and loving it AMCs The Walking Dead has left quite a positive impression on television viewers today. With its interesting zombie apocalypse plot and gory complexion, its no surprise that the number of viewers increase each season. Fans ache to feast their eyes upon a new episode each week. In Dead and loving it, found in the December 3rd edition of Entertainment Weekly, Jeff Jenson successfully utilizes pathos to indulge the readers as well as logos to help fans understand what goes on behind the scenes and the reason behind the show. Being a fan of the show myself, I found that his article was not only interesting, but successfully kept me indulged in all the information he presented. Along the first page of the article, Jenson employs pathos to indulge the readers into reading more about The Walking Dead. He begins by introducing the Andrew Lincoln, one of the main characters in the show, and then goes on to present the whole show itself. He does this by talking about the many awards and views that the show gets and then asks the readers thought stimulating questions: Your beloved spouse is now a zombie. Do you put her down or wait in hope for a cure? (32). By Jenson questioning the readers, he captures their interest by trying to incorporate their personal lives to what actually ends up happening in the show. Whats clever about this sort of appeal, is that the reader does know much about the show at this point in the article which leads them to their curiosity to learn more about it. He forces the reader to bring out their emotions and thus, making them want to read on further.

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Throughout the entire article, Jenson utilizes logos through the form of dialogue retrieved from the director and various characters from the show. He uses dialogues from the interviews to help give fans accurate behind the scenes information as well as to help them familiarize the whole reason for the show being created. The readers get a better sense of why the director chose to write a series dedicated to just zombies due to Jensons use of the directors response: I wanted to know: Where do they go? How do they continue to find food and water? How do they survive? There werent any zombie stories out there that provided me with the answer, so I decided to do it myself (33). With this quote from the director, readers were able to get a clearer sense of the reason behind the show without having to infer themselves. As well as including responses from the director, Jenson also provided the readers dialogue from the actors from the show also. He successfully gives the readers the actors perspectives on the show in addition to the directors. In the article, Jenson includes a brief statement from an actor from the show: If 10 zombies attacked, Daryl is good for six of them (33). This response from Norman Reedus, that Jenson chose to include, helps aid his purpose to give behind the scenes information on the show. The quotes flow nicely together to prevent confusion on whose saying what points. To conclude, Jenson successfully utilizes pathos to indulge the readers into reader further into his article as well as logos to help fans get a clearer perspective on why the exactly the series was created. He uses actual responses from the director himself and keeps the article as accurate as possible. In addition to the directors dialogue, Jenson uses responses from the actors in the show as well. He does this to provide different perspectives about the show and is also successful in doing so.