Edward Wong Rhetorical Analysis

Climate change is causing problems all over the world. One of the largest examples of this is the desertification of the Northern China. The loss of valuable land is displacing over thirty thousand people. Edward Wong, the another of all three articles discusses three different elements of Chinas problem. Wong uses the different tones in his three articles to convey different messages. The contrasting tones allow him to tailor his writing to fit different themes throughout each article. The first article about China in The New York Times series is “Living in China’s Expanding Deserts” by Edward Wong. This first articles addresses the struggle of the Chinese people in the expanding deserts that is their home. The series itself is a part of

This article addresses the how the government has relocated a large group of people and termed them ‘Ecological Migrants’. Throughout the article it portrays the discontent of the people through the pictures, stories and interview answers. Unlike the first article this article spends more time and article space on accounts of the displeased people, giving them a media platform to discuss their discontent. For example, one interviewee says “the work is so exhausting, and I’m dead tired. I never worked like this before… we lived our days on our own schedule” (Wong). Another interview commented that during the relocation, “we all cried, they cried, I cried. We were a family and now we’re separated” (Wong). This article also contrasts the first article in that is paints a picture of the current conditions for the audience. More so it goes greater in depth about the people’s daily lives, causing the audience to feel connected to their struggles. The purpose of this article is to allow the reader to feel more connected to the people and the struggles in order to bring awareness to the general public. It too is a visual article that uses pictures to get its point