“If you clear a forest, you’d better pray continuously” (Ray, Clearcut). In the excerpts from “Ecology of a Cracker Childhood,” Ray experiences passionate emotions about her home town of South Georgia. The excerpt gives the reader a visual setting of what South Georgia looked like in Ray’s eyes. Her use of a descriptive setting gives the reader an understanding of how much South Georgia means to Ray. With her strong appeal to pathos and a very honest warning that also demonstrates logos, Ray establishes a powerful argument about being against people attempting to bring change to the forest. As Ray creates a detailed visualization of her homeland for the reader, the way she describes Georgia also functions as a form of pathos because she is