Views on Gay Marriage in Anna Quindlin’s Essay Evan’s Two...

The essay, â€Å"Evan’s Two Moms†, was written by Anna Quindlin and published in the 2004 edition of Good Reasons with Comtemporary Arguments. This essay takes a liberal point of view concerning gay marriage and the ability to raise a child in a gay family. Throughout Quindlen’s essay, her structure introduces ethos, pathos and logos through a variety of court cases to gain the readers trust; she appeals to both emotion and logic in her reader through passion and unwavering intensity, which disapproves of those who take a radical point of view about gay marriage. Anna Quindlen’s structure of â€Å"Evan’s Two Moms† provides the reader with explicit details concerning the debate about gay marriage. In Quindlen’s introductory paragraph up until†¦show more content†¦Another excellent example of where Anna Quindlen applies pathos is when she states that gay marriage is a radical notion for straight people and a conservative notion for gay ones (410). This separates people into two groups concerning their opinions about gay marriage and reinforces Quindlens’ statement by giving examples of each notion. â€Å"In Madison, Wisconsin, a couple who applied at the Y with their kids for a family membership were turned down because both were women. It’s one of those things that can make a person feel small† (Quindlen 411). Quindlen tries to relay the message that the America of tolerance is being heavily treaded upon and when some make the assumption that this is a â€Å"straight world† and r ight to be gay is denied, it can drive someone to be captive to society in a place that is known as the â€Å"’land of the free.’† â€Å"’Fran and I chose to get married for the same reasons that any two people do,’ said the lawyer who was fired in Georgia. ‘We fell in love; we wanted to spend our lives together.’ Pretty simple’† (Quindlen 411). This applies to pathos because Quindlen makes it known that something so simple has to be part of one of the most widely debated issues today; she finds it ridiculous how something so simple like love between two people is open to debate. The body of the essay refers to Anna Quindlen’s ethos. She comes across as trusting, knowledgeable and intelligent by providing the reader with