Caging Animals ... Good? or Bad?

In Room 8 we have been focusing on Analyzing our reading. We have used the three Persuasive Appeals also known as Ethos, Pathos and Logos. The Kahikatea Reading group focused on the Persuasive writing "Caging Animals"

Persuasive strategy	Yes / No	How the author used it?
Claim – States the main   point or stance	Yes	The author states that animals should not be caged for children’s entertainment!
Big Names –  Mentions experts and important people to support the argument	Yes	Willie B was mentioned as one of the famous animals  of Atlanta Zoo. The author writes that Willie B has never had a chance to explore or hunt because all he does is sit in a cage looking at people watching him. This links to the use of pathos as it makes the reader empathise with the situation that the gorrilla Willie is in.
Logos – Uses logic, numbers, or   facts to support the argument	Yes	It says that a lot of animals have been evacuated from their natural habitat and taken away to a different habitat that doesn’t have the right temperature the natural environment of that animal.
Pathos – Appeals to the audience’s emotions	Yes	Other than empathy the  emotions the reader could feel could include sadness and depression because animals don’t get to live like we do, on the other  hand I feel that I disagree about how the writer feels about letting animal go free because if animals were let out to go and explore they could go into other people’s house and invade their privacy or bust down their house and this could lead to injury and death!
Ethos – Tries to build trust and credibility	No
Kairos – Builds a sense of urgency   for the cause	Yes	The writer uses a Polar Bear as a good example. Polar Bears are not used to living in places like Atlanta where the temperature is very high and it gets really hot, their natural habitat is quite different, in fact the opposite. Their temperatures of the North Pole are much lower than they are provided  with in their man made habitat!
Research – Uses studies and   information to make the   argument seem more convincing;   this can be in the form of words, graphs, tables, or illustrations	Yes	The author did a lot of research from Willie B and where he lives and what he does all day and compares the natural habitat of Polar Bears highlighting the difference in temperature between this and that of Atlanta Zoo.