No connection exists if others do not feel sorry for Sherrena, who has to face her own inner conflict about Lamar.Įthos, Pathos, and Logos.

She will have to pay her own mortgage on the property.

“I guess I got to stop feeling sorry for these people because nobody is feeling sorry for me,” she states (11). He simply cannot meet his financial responsibilities, and Sherrena is torn between helping him and protecting her own bottom line. At one point, she faces a tough decision about Lamar, a legless man who occupies an apartment where he helps neighborhood boys stay in school and control their lives. Early in the book, he describes the life of Sherrena Tarver, an entrepreneur landlord who owns and manages numerous properties and has to evict nonpaying tenants in the most difficult circumstance. To bring his book to life, Desmond uses many quotations from the people he portrays in the cycle of poverty. To reinforce this anecdotal evidence, he also employs logical statistical evidence as well as emotional allusions to the nation’s founding principle of equality. To advance his deductive argument, Desmond largely employs emotional anecdotal evidence, introducing readers to the real-life circumstances of eight families, thus using pathos to reach his readers. Legal and economic systems rigged against the poor are to blame for creating an unbreakable cycle of poverty for renters. Throughout his book, Desmond explains that inflated rents and evictions- the forced loss of housing-create power imbalances between landlords and tenants. The writer notes that Desmond offers his thesis statement, or the main point of his argument, without delay, building off the specific example in the introduction.

Evicted by Matthew Desmond