This
week, a tragedy occurred in a United States Marine base in southern
Afghanistan. One Marine, who was
training new recruits, accurately predicted that he would be gunned down by one
of his own men inside of his own base.
This was made clear through phone calls and letters sent home prior to
his falling. The article was found
on CNN’s website and written using the primary source of the soldier’s father,
making the article extremely accurate.
The piece was published in the midst of a heated debate regarding the
war in Afghanistan, which is also an important topic in the upcoming
election.
This
article was written to the everyday citizen that does not have a strong opinion
of the war yet. It was structured
in order to convince readers that this devastating war should end quickly. The article first drew people in by
isolating the phrase that showed that the Marine predicted his own death. Then, the author heavily relied on
pathos by giving a play-by-play of the devastation that the family of the fallen
soldier faced. The story given
will tug on anybody’s heart and served as a gateway to the statistics that were
provided about trainees killing their mentors, or green-on-blues. More pathos was then added at the end
by describing the soldier’s brother’s football game, in which he saluted his
brother. Altogether, the author
played with the readers’ emotions very well, in addition to grounding his
arguments with facts, to portray his focus to the reader.
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