I read a short story called "The Star" by Esther Claes.  The story was about the end of the world, and this teenage star was trapped in her house with her parents while the end of the world was happening.  They were dropping bombs on the United States, starting from the East Coast, and ending where she lived which was Hollywood.  All the maids and help left the house early, and the parent's slowly awaited what they knew was coming and they couldn't stop it.  This story was wrote in a teenage way of reading, and it kept my attention.
     The story "The Star" showed Ethos by stating that the "president was on TV crying and begging" it made it feel real the way she explained it in the first paragraph of the story.  Made you believe her empathy over the subject by also letting you know that she didn't believe that it was going to happen.
     In the story she used Pathos by expressing her worries and concerns, and also by trying to keep her mind off of the end of the world by giving herself a pedicure and hiding under her covers, going to sleep, and telling herself she was going to wake up in the morning.  She broke down and cried once and told herself she was going to be o.k.
    The use of Logos in the story was hard to determine.  It was fiction and there was really no truth to the story.  It kept my attention by me wanting to find out if the radiation reached the west coast where her and her parents lived.  I believed her when she explained the horror in her parents voice when the radiation did hit the west coast and they were outside her room trying to talk to her there voices were faint like they were dying, but she was ignoring them, because she didn't want to think of her parents dying.  It was a very sad story of horror, and it was interesting.