Pathos:
Gladwell throughtout this book gives the reader positive emotion because of how it feels like Gladwell is actually talking to the reader and he has a playful personallity which is displayed in his jokes or phrases. There was one man named Robert Oppenheimer who was considered a genius that went to Havard to get a doctor's degree in physics. Oppenheimer was emotionally unstable and out of no where he "took some chemicals from the laboratory and tried to poison his tutor." Havard didn't suspend him from their school, but made him see a psychiatrist and was put on probation. Gladwell appalled by this fact says, "On probation?" And as Gladwell went on about Oppenheimer's later life, he brought up a statement from Oppenheimer's friend: "He was a very impactical fellow, he couldn't run a hamburger stand." Gladwell adds in afterwards, "Oh, by the way, in graduate school he tried to kill his tutor." This really lightened up the mood because it gave the reader something to laugh about because Oppenheimer was crazy, and other people acted like he was just a normal guy, while Gladwell proved him not to be. There was another moment where Gladwell made a comment that lightened up the event he was telling. It was about the lack of communication between the co-pilot and ATC and the co-pilot was supposed to tell ATC that the plane was running out of fuel and there was soon going to be an emergency. Instead of stating that what they were enduring was an emergency, he just said, "We're running out of fuel." To ATC, this is a normal response because every plane will be running out of fuel towards their destination. Gladwell says that telling ATC this was like him going to a restaurant saying, "Yes, I'll have some more coffee and ah, I'm choking on a chicken bone." It's funny, because it is true the way the co-pilot was explaining his situation because he should've dealt with the emergency seriously then treating it passively. There was a moment have happiness at the end of the book when he talks about his grandmother, and how she gave his mother the gift of education. He calls his grandmother a "remarkable woman" and he lists all of the great things that has happened thanks to her kindness. And he also says that, "The outlier, in the end, is not an outlier at all." This gave the reader feelings of happiness knowing that outliers are just humans with a little more boosts of help, practice, and opportunity and that even the rarest of people can become their own kind of outlier.