Anger

People make appeals to their relationship with their parents all the time. People across the country understand this. For example, a lot of guys these days claim to be a 'momma's boy.' Yet, I have always truly been a daddy's girl. When I was 6 years old, my parents divorced. I rarely saw my dad, and the situation worsened when he was driving home from work early one morning and crashed into a drunk driver who had swerved onto his side of the road. The crash broke my dad's neck and my mom later told me that he "died" 3 times in the hospital. This may seem like an appeal to sympathy because I have probably written it that way, but my rhetorical appeal should be anger. I lost my dad in many ways when he and my mother decided to divorce, which was a choice between two adults. When I almost lost my dad because someone couldn't sleep in a car or call a friend or just not get in their car, I was angry. That was not my dad's choice. Two adults did not make that decision. The crash and divorce occurred around the same time, but I am still angry about the crash. I can't rhetorically write about it in order to sell the 'anger situation', but losing your father is definitely one in which people can relate.