The 390-year-old tree that survived an atomic bomb by Faiz Siddiqui is story about a bonsai plant that survived the bombing of Hiroshima and live beyond any life expectancy. The article also gave us an overview about the 390-year-old bonsai tree. The article also gave a very detailed explanation of how the bonsai plant survived. The author uses many writing techniques to make his article more informative and entertaining to the audience. The author uses ethos in the article to add a moral understanding to the audience. In the article it states how the owner of the priceless bonsai plant, could give it away to the enemy. At this time Japan was just bombed by the United States of America. It takes some serious forgiveness to give away that priceless bonsai. Ethos in this article help to morally show the goodness in the owner in the plant. The author also used logos to logically make the audience understand how things worked in the article. The author introduces the audience to facts about how the tree is past its living capabilities. The bonsai that is 390 years has lived over almost two lives. On average a bonsai will live for only 200 years, but this tree has almost reached a full 400 years old. The tree was lucky enough to live by …show more content…
He gives stories such as how the owner gave away the priceless bonsai tree to the enemy that had bombed. He then gives some stories about how the curator of the bonsai organization has to take care of that tree. The curator must take special care of the tree, because the tree is irreplaceable. Art however can be copied onto another canvas or even on a sheet of paper but that tree can never be regrown. He tells of a story about Moses Weisberg, who was riding his bike until he came upon the tree in Washington. At that time the tree was located in National Arboretum in Washington. The use of anecdotes was well used in the article to give relatable stories of how the bonsai plant came to
Ethos is the act of proving one’s self (namely the author), reliable to the reader, and a credible writer to research and explain the topic
Ethos is a category that appeals to connecting one thing to another to help advertise the product.Resse's uses this tactic by including the pretty well -known rapper Mr.lupo linking the fans of mr.lupo to the cereal.People who watch the commercial will recognize mr.lupo and will want to buy the cereal from the commercial he's in.Connecting the two products together gets out more publicity for and the said product.Ethos is efficient in the process of linking two different subjects so they benefit each other.
Ethos or moral character, is used when we are trying to persuade an audience that a
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In John Hersey's book, Hiroshima, he provides a detailed account of six people and how the bombing of Hiroshima affected their lives. John Heresy felt it was important to focus his story on six individuals to create a remembrance that war affects more than just nations and countries, but actual human beings. Moreover, the book details the effect the bomb had on the city of Hiroshima. “Houses all around were burning, and the wind was now blowing hard.” (Hersey, 27).
The non-fiction book Hiroshima by John Hersey is an engaging text with a powerful message in it. The book is a biographical text about lives of six people Miss Sasaki, Dr. Fujii, Mrs. Nakamura, Father Kleinsorge, Dr. Sasaki and Rev. Tanimoto in Hiroshima, Japan and how their lives completely changed at 8:15 on the 6th of August 1945 by the dropping of the first atomic bomb. The author, John Hersey, through his use of descriptive language the in book Hiroshima exposes the many horrors of a nuclear attack.
The fact in this article is that the writer uses logos and pathos more in the critique. Logos, meaning from the text book is the arrangement of an argument and also evidence that supports the writer’s statement. Pathos is Associated with emotional feelings. Ethos simply means the act of a writer trying to convince his audience. I believe that the writer did not use ethos much in the story.
...omes back after many years of being on his own whenever he needs something or some confidence. The tree doesn’t just give herself to anyone, but only to this boy. Silverstein does a great job at letting readers understand how community comes into play in a culture. Even though, humans don’t live in a culture where they have special bonds with trees and inanimate objects, there is much more than the tree just being a tree. The tree is THIS BOY’S tree.
She starts out terrible at drawing and eventually gets better. “There has been some progress in this whole tree project...I've gone through different phases.” (Anderson 151) Melinda’s growth is expressed by her project. In her last tree she drew, the tree was breathing, so was she...just one of the simplest representations you could find; but you can always dig deeper. The tree is not perfectly symmetrical, has rough bark and a dead branch, this represents how life is not symmetrical it has its imperfections, the bark represents how she had a rough first year in high school with losing all of her friends and having to deal with being raped; this leaves the dead branch, that is her innocence...it got taken away from her and if she did not speak up it would have controlled all of her, the branch lets say got a disease unwillingly if it did not fall or get cut off it would have taken the whole tree with it. Lastly the birds represent Melinda growing new wings and coming back into the real world; taking flight and knowing she can make a difference.(Anderson Ch. 90) The true meaning of the tree is having growth and
Tree itself is already a very commonly used symbol in many places, it symbolize sheltering, evocative of enternity, rooted in earth and reaching up to the sky and many more. In this book however, it focoused on the growing of the tree, we all know that it takes a lot of time for a tree to grow, likewise, it took a long time for melinda to speak up and face the truth. Moreover, this drawing of the tree is representing the mind growth ofMelinda, for inctense, the drawing was poorly done at the beggining, Melinda’s presure and her life is weighting her down, as the drawing gets better throghout the school year, Melinda’s strength and mind set is getting better too. If the tree ment sheltering, then Melinda sure developed a very nice shelter for herself in the
Analysis: This setting shows in detail a location which is directly tied to the author. He remembers the tree in such detail because this was the place were the main conflict in his life took place.
Ethos and logos are used as an appeal in the essay. It was a story with a lot of emotion which she had successfully handled in the whole essay. She presented the essay in the real life with many facts, she gave poetic touch to her essay because of some of the metaphors she used like we didn 't breathe it. She used both logos and pathos in
Pleased, Grand Pine Tree said, “You are the first tree to ask me this personal question. It may appear that way, but I believe you will understand what I am about to share with you. There comes a time when each ornamental tree chooses to plant its roots into the ground. The tree no longer needs to roam around looking for answers because the answers are all found within oneself,” Grand Pine Tree paused, to allow Robust Pine Tree to consider his last statement.
stood an oak as enormous and magnificent as a cathedral. The trees seemed to part respectfully to allow their older companion to spread out in full force. Its lower branches stretched out in a tent over the clearing. The snow had filled the deep crevices of the bark, and the trunk, which was so wide that it would have taken three men to get their arms around it, looked as if it were shot through with silver thread. It had hardly shed any of its foliage which had dried up during the fall; the oak was covered with snow-capped leaves to the very top. (Nagibin 65)
During the winter months, the apple tree is gray and lifeless. Having been stripped of all leaves, its limbs are barren and jagged. Frozen in place, they stiffly poke out into the air, and are reluctant to sway even for a harsh winter wind. The tree appears dry and brittle. The birds no longer favor it for shelter. They have abandoned their previous home for the pine trees on my neighbor’s property. The tree elicits a cold, and sad feeling. It is physically present, yet somehow absent at the same time. Unlike death, this is a temporary...