Sometimes, we do not take into account the beauty that the mind is capable of. Oliver Sacks wrote Musicophilia to show the comparison between music and brain activity. In pages 175 through 185 of this novel, Sacks touches on musical imagery called synesthesia, and uses both evidence and real world application to emphasize his point. Through the emphasis on both logical and ethical appeals, Sacks’ purpose is to inform and explain to the reader how musical synesthesia is a beautiful and complex endeavor.
In these 10 singular pages of Musicophilia the reader is convinced that music and the brain work in tandem. Sacks uses logos (a rhetorical appeal based on logic) to convince the readers of this fact. Sacks cites Novelists J. Hugsman’s findings,
