Suspense or Pathos

Suspense or Pathos

        The novel "We all Fall down" written by Eric Walters is about a boy named Will who is with his father at the time the twin towers are hit by aircrafts, both him and his father try and evacuate the southern tower. Moments after his dad hands him a  whistle, incase they get separated. Wills father promises that he will come for Will no matter what the circumstances are, all he has to do is blow the whistle.  Will and his father along with Ting have made it safely to the lobby when William steps out of the front doors to call his mother suddenly the tower collapses with his father still in it. The quote "He'd told me he'd come if I blew the whistle...he promised..." ( Walters, 194.) demonstrates the author's use of pathos. After the tower collapses Will is frantic to find his father, scared lost and in disbelief he blows on his whistle, at this point in the book I began to cry, I felt so much empathy. I felt empathy due to having this great fear of losing my parents all over again, as I am adopted. I began to feel the emotions for Will as he awaited for his father to turn up out of the rubble for him as he promised.