How Pathos is used in Mormon Housewives Blogs:

1. Appeals to kind of fantasy living- The author states multiple times that these lives portrayed in the blogs are what her, and other friends, sometimes dream about having.  She also states that they probably would not do it when it came to it, however, it is a nice escape.  She questions if the life of an LDS woman can really be as good as they post.  They are almost as Barbie dolls living in a perfect world.  This can help the reader begin to think of what their perfect or ideal life is like and compare with the mormon bloggers.

1. Comparisons - The author brings great feeling into her blog through herself.  She uses herself as a common woman, who seems to have no religion, nor interest in kids, cupcakes, or a “perfect life” and shows that the blog still affects her.  In a way she points out that even a woman completely opposite and different can see that the blogs are good.  She points out that the lives of the mormon housewives are not perfect and that the life they say is always the more positive, however, it is a great way to think and to get away from real life.  This can help the writer reach out to a greater audience.  It is not just for mormons, or bloggers, but even for those who never had interest in any of those things just as the writer expresses.

1. Humor - The author has a paragraph or two which are just meant to arouse the funny bone.  She writes of how the mormon blogger’s lives are a little too perfect and how the world would be if we all spoke as they did.  We would all speak like, a little insanely, happy high school girls.  Adding this really gets the reader to realize the blogger’s cover of real life.  Though she doesn’t flat out say that they are liars she does say and show that the bloggers are deciding not to share any down moments of life giving the readers a better sense that mormon housewives are actually real people.