evastation of the community and its people strikes an emotional chord.
Both ethos and pathos appear in paragraph 8, in which the principal explains, "I have a lot of Olivia's [sic]." Rimer describes the 200-plus college-bound students attending the inner-city public school. The serious character of so many of the students resonates with ethos, and that fact in turn raises the emotional confidence in the environment and people who are the subjects of the story. That entire beat of ethos is recapitulated in paragraph 9, which cites the gang stereotype, along with gang statistics, vis-à-vis the invisible young people of South-Central "like Olivia Miles" (Rimer 80).
Beginning in paragraph 10, Rimer employs ethos with details about college-bound Olivia is as normal as other American teenagers--embedded in pop culture and set to go to college with her high-achieving boyfriend. Pathos comes into play with a description of the fearful physical danger and social stigma that shape normal South-Central residents' experience. Pathos is amplified in the paragraph following, in which Rimer refers to Olivia's "plaintive" tone about of South-Central's reputation for the riot instead of for residents' achievements (81).
The balance of the story can be interpreted as an exercise in ethos because of the way it keeps referring to the character of the people who are being profiled by Rimer. Thus paragraphs 13-16 refer to the upward-mobility ambitions of the Mileses despite "enormous obstacles" (Rimer 81), including the physical dangers of South-Central.
The end of paragraph 16 refers back to Disneyland, reference to which leads the story, and paragraph 17 harks back to the relative poverty of the Mileses, who could not afford the high admission prices to the park. That opens the way for a part of the narrative that employs pathos, with Olivia quoted on her pride in her family and her culture and her openness to exposure to other cultures (i.e.,...