Emotion: the state of experiencing numerous sensations of joy, sorrow, fear, and hate. Surprisingly, these feelings can passed on in many forms from person to person. In the novel The House at Sugar Beach, the author, Helene Cooper, expresses and infuses appeals to Pathos. The incorporation of words or phrases activates emotions that enrich the sentimental and drastic events that occur throughout this book. Beginning with Helene Cooper, a little Congo girl from Sugar Beach, blissfully enjoys the trappings of wealth and prosperity with her family and her beloved sisters Marlene and Eunice. However, this time of fortune did not last forever. Liberia at this time was like a boiling pot of water left unsupervised, ready to spill at any moment. On April 12, 1980, a group of soldiers staged a coup d’état, assassinating President William Tolbert and executing his cabinet. Inevitably, the Coopers and the entire Congo class were now being tortured, imprisoned, hunted, shot, and disgracefully assaulted women. Helene, Marlene, and their mother fled Sugar Beach, and then Liberia, for America, regrettably leaving Eunice behind in all the chaos. In the course of the story, the main events that arose heavy feelings of disappointment, rage, and despair from inside Helene and her family were her father’s abandonment of her and her family in a time of crisis, the soldier’s ruthless abuse of her mother, and her return to the place she had once called her home. The absence of a fatherly figure can affect a child drastically, especially if it is done at an early age. Helene was only about 13 years old when her father had decided that he could go off and live a better life away from the violence in Liberia but doing so lamentably caused the family to slowly drift apart. When the author describes the event of her father actually leaving the house and saying his goodbyes, she mentions, “he said he loved us, that nothing would change. He said we’d spend weekends with him” (Cooper, 132). T