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‍This article shows how helping others benefits people and gives them confidence to believe in themselves. In this article, Kathryn Martin suffers a tornado in her town taking the life of her son, her mother-in-law and her grandmother-in-law. She didn’t want to have the other family go through what she had to experience and thought that she should come up with an idea to help families out and give them the confidence they need to start their life again. ‍I think that the author made this piece because it proves what an affect one person can make on the lives of others. The societal context of this piece would be that natural disasters have a great impact on the lives of people living in the area. This influences Kathryn Martin to help another family go through what she went through six months before. The author uses ethos because she was the one who loaded her car with juice, snacks, and toys and went to Otwell to help. She is credible for helping the family and proving that she could make a difference in children’s lives. This author expresses pathos because she went through a natural disaster herself and emotionally knew that she had to do something to help the family suffering what she went through. This has an emotional appeal on the reader because her story is very sad. Logical appeal would be that helping others go through something you went through is easier than never experiencing what that person went to. It makes more sense to help someone when you know what they are going through. Martin, Kathryn. "Helping Kids Heal." //Woman's Day//. May 2006. Web. 04 May 2012. [].