In “Execution” by Anna Quindlen, the author appeals to pathos by inserting herself into the crimes of a cereal killer. She begins her paper with language such as “Ted Bundy and I go a long way back” and “I thought about being approached by a handsome young man”. These instances of Quindlen inserting herself into the plot of Bundy’s crimes deepen the emotional connection between reader and author. Readers stop and imagine Quindlen as a victim, similar to the way she does. Later on in the essay, Quindlen’s feelings for bundy take a dramatic shift, when she claims that she would “kill him [herself]”. The personal connection that once seemed to link Quindlen and Bundy now becomes the force that drives them apart. Rather than see Bundy killed by
