ABSTRACT
Emotional appeals persuade the audience by arousing emotions and passions within the audience to move them to act. Emotional appeals, then, endeavor to produce an aesthetic "pleasure" in the reader that is as enlivening and enlightening. The emotional appeal of beauty comes from evoking the ambiguity, complexity, nuance, and even incompleteness in the subject, characters, or landscape. Artists represent subjects so as to evoke an emotional response and thus allegiance to a conceptual idea. The emotional appeal can have varied consequences in young-adult genocide novels: from pity to responsibility to rejection. The Hunger is a novel that an English teacher might teach in a middle or high school class for the purpose of meeting the genocide education mandate or "covering" a topic like anorexia or war. A teacher might recognize that identity and body image are relevant to adolescents' lives and that this novel might work on personal, familial, and perhaps international levels.
