Summary Of Kwok Bun Chan's Intimacy And Its Denial

The article, “Intimacy and its Denial: When Sons and Daughters Talk About Fatherhood, Marriage, and Work” written by Kwok-bun Chan, describes two different topics regarding fathers, children, and women living in Hong Kong. The first topic describes the relationship between sons and daughters with their fathers and then, sons experiencing fatherhood for themselves. The second topic discusses single women and daughters explaining their opinions on working, men, and family life. The author includes these subjects he uses pathos, ethos and logical fallacies such as blind loyalty and slippery slope to advance his argument and convince his audience that his claim is was correct.
The first strategy Chan uses to introduce his argument is ethos. He

He states that first generation fathers didn’t know how to be intimate with their children and instead focused on work, yet they wanted to keep control and beat their children to have authority (383). Chan’s purpose for including this was to make readers feel sorry for those children who had to endure that treatment from their own fathers. Then, have readers become angry at the fathers for using violence against their children for not being able to express themselves. He uses the word beat in a negative connotation and makes readers feel sympathy for the children because their own fathers mistreated them. Then, allow readers to be angry at fathers for beating their own children instead of trying to learning how to build a connection with them. He effectively uses this detail because he uses abstract diction to appeal to the reader’s emotions and gives readers hope that those children found help. Chan shifts the reader’s attention to the third generation fathers who were the solution to change pervious father’s mentality. These fathers were able to balance being affectionate and being strict with their children (383). He uses slippery slope to suggest that third generation fathers were created as a result of the previous generations habits and wanted to give readers hope that fathers can change and build connections with their children. Chan argues first generation