A Look at the Fast-Food Industry by Eric Schlosser

Question 9 • Common Core ELA 11 - ELA3011 IC

Which excerpt from Fast Food Nation best illustrates the use of the rhetorical appeal pathos?

Answer

Teenagers have long provided the fast food industry with the bulk of its workforce.

The strict regimentation at fast food restaurants creates standardized products.

Although Richard and Mac McDonald introduced the division of labor to the restaurant business, it was a McDonald’s executive named Fred Turner who created a production system of unusual thoroughness and attention to detail.

But the stance of the fast food industry on issues involving employee training, the minimum wage, labor unions, and overtime pay strongly suggests that its motives in hiring the young, the poor, and the handicapped are hardly altruistic.

Explanation

Pathos appeals to readers’ emotions. Choice D describes the fast food industry’s treatment of young, poor, and handicapped workers and suggests its motives are not altruistic, inviting concern or indignation. The other choices mainly present factual claims about workers, restaurant procedures, or the history of the production system.

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