Which of the following excerpts is the best example of pathos? A.
“You scrape uneaten food off the dishes and into the disposal by hand, rinse the dishes, presoak them, stack them in a rack, and load the rack into the dishwashing machine . . . .”
B.
“My first response to the work is disappointing and a kind of sexist contempt.”
C.
“‘They don’t care about us,’ she tells me of the hotel guests; in fact they don’t notice us at all unless something gets stolen from a room—‘then they’re all over you.’”
D.
“Finally I lie down and breathe against the weight of unmovable air on my chest. I wake up a few hours later to hear a sound not generated by anyone’s TV: a woman’s clear alto singing two lines of the world’s saddest song, lyrics indecipherable, to the accompaniment of trucks on the highway.”
E.
“For sheer grandeur, scale, and intimidation value, I doubt if any corporate orientation exceeds that of Wal-Mart. I have been told that the process will take eight hours, which will include two fifteen-minute breaks and one half-hour break for a meal, and will be paid for like a regular shift.”