Question

Pick a paragraph from "A Balance Between Nature and Nurture" by Gloria Steinem that grabbed your interest. Explain the power of this passage.
Keep your response to 1 paragraph. Make sure to write in complete sentences.

Answer 1

Picked paragraph:

I had the feeling of coming home, of awakening from an inauthentic life. It wasn't as if I thought my self-authority was more important than external authority, but it wasn't less important either. We are both communal and uniquely ourselves, not either-or.

My interest was piqued by this paragraph because it details the realisation of a previously unknown or suppressed idea that comes to fruition through experience. This passages gives the power of logos. I feel this way because the author reasoning why their point of view changed in a logical way. They explain how their point of view changed once they had experienced something different from the norm. She reasons that people are both communible and unique. This passages power also comes from pathis, as the passage invoked a feeling of connection to the author when the author connects the readers to the situation through the use of "we".