Admirer #2

(In Response to Admirer #2)

I think that this approach mainly comes from the Pathos appeal. The author of the letter seems like she is overly in love, and has had a crush on me (the reader) for quite a while. She said, “To someone I have admired for a long time”. So she obviously has known me for a while, but the reader might not seem as interested in her. She tries to tell me how great I am and to make me feel good about myself. This would have an emotional tug to make me want to be her Valentine. She puts a list of reasons why I am the best and dramatizes about how much she thinks about me on a daily basis. It almost seems like she is begging me to go with her, especially when she says that she thinks about me thousands of times each day.

Her voice is loud, and a little overbearing. She is a little wordy, too, when she says “However, since thousands of teddy bears would encumber your doorstep and annoy your roommates, I hope you’ll accept this offering as a representative offering of my deepest devotion to you.” She could have summarized it a ton.

She also gives some appeal to the Ethos through sharing personal information. She told me that she’s admired me for a long time, and also gave out her number. She tried to seem sincere when she spoke during the beginning and at the end, but exaggerated in the middle of the text.

I think I would accept their offer, especially if I knew the person already. She seemed pretty sincere overall.