English essay ”Must I really send my boy into hell every day?”

Is article is written by Ian Roe, who is the deputy head of a school. As the deputy head he has experienced lot of incidents of bullying, so he knows how it really is at a school. Ian Roe has a son that is being bullied at his school, and Ian Roe can´t do anything about it except following the standard process. This article is about his son being bullied, and how the handling of the situation happens and how it could be handled. He explains how it happens to his son and how it feels like to witness it. He watches is son losing his self-esteem, seeing how his personality gets squeezed out of him and how he tries to hide his personality to become unnoticeable. His son has dyspraxia, a condition associated with dyslexia, which manifests itself in poor muscle co-ordination and emotional immaturity. So he is an easy target for the other boy, who is doing the bullying because of his lack of physical strength. These boys exploit these conditions because it makes it harder for him to stand up for himself. Ian Roe has tried to talk to the son about it, but the son won’t report the incidents. Ian Roe has talked to the head teacher, and he hope by going that way he can get the teachers to make a difference. When Ian Roe tells about the son experiences, he uses a lot of rhetorical effect to make it sound more serious. He mainly uses pathos, so he appeals to the readers feelings. This makes the story more heart-breaking, and gets the readers sympathy. You can see it on page 2 line 4-8, but especially in the part “This is true destruction of the spirit.” It clearly shows the fathers feelings and concern, and it plays on the readers emotions, and to be more accurate the readers empathy. This isn’t the only rhetorical appeal methods he uses; he also uses both logos and ethos. Logos is used because logically nobody