Pathos was definitely present in this story.
Everyone has grandparents or even great grandparents that they love so much, which makes this story very relatable for most readers. Even for me during it, I pictured different memories with my grandma even thought I was reading his story and his memories about his childhood.
Richard Bausch beings his story with a very simple yet inviting line, "Indulge me, a moment." This line not only is just four words but it makes the reader want to keep reading after that short introduction but it also makes the reader want to be involved in the story. Everyone experiences childhood and that is one thing that is very relatable. We all grow up as young kids wanting to be older and wanting to have a sense of authority, and so did Richard. He was seven and wanted to be called a big boy, but surely he wasn't if his father was still giving him baths.
Memories. Everyone has them and every makes them every day. You remember things big and small, things that happened from decades ago and things that happened this morning. "But it has never left me. It is will all the others, large and small, important and meaningless, all waiting in the same timeless dark, to drift towards the surface when I write or daydream, or sleep." I think this line was a great way to end the story. Everyone has things in their life that they remember whether they want to or not and sometimes they are the greatest thing in their life like their wedding down to the smallest thing like eating breakfast one morning. These are the things that relate us to each other. We share memories with our family, friends, and even people we have never met before.
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