Summary Of Night Falls And Graffiti Mecca Is Whited Out

In an article written by Cara Buckley entitled “Night Falls, and a Graffiti Mecca Is Whited Out”, she emphasizes clearly the disappointment of majority of people after the 5Pointz building in Queens has been whitewashed as she mentioned in her article “Erasing the work of hundreds and seemingly putting the final nail in the long battle between the building's owners, who plan to erect luxury apartments, and the artists who fought to save it”. She also argues a very common conception to attract people attention in the beginning of the article such as believing graffiti as an act of vandalism. However, most people believe that the conception is not applicable to the 5Pointz Building in Queens due to the uniqueness of its identity that the building

While the author actually did a great job in conveying her message by providing many statements from different people to prove their disappointment and drawing their emotional appeals in the article when the building has been whitewashed, the author did not emphasize her credibility in writing an article and thus making her argument become less convincing. Firstly, it is obvious that the author has a very good sense of logos when writing an article as she composed her writing with countless number of statements from public to prove her argument. In this article, she interviewed more than five people, varied from the street art artists to the owner of the building, to convince the society that most people felt broken-hearted as her when the 5Pointz has been whitewashed. The statements that

Without a good ethos implied in an article, reader will easily feel doubtful on the statement she made. According to the New York Times’s website, it states that Cara is actually a very highly experience person in the newspaper company since she has been working before the Iraq War for Times’s Baghdad. Her expertise can be proven from the appealing hook that she managed to include at the beginning of the “Night Falls, and a Graffiti Mecca Is Whited Out” article in order to attract people attention to read it until the end. Moreover, she also has earned her master from a well-known university, Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, which shows she an expert in journalism field (New York Time, 2014). However, this article written by her did not really shows her credibility since she only provides the reader with numerous of evidences, but without deeper explanations explanation on each of the evidence that she provides. For instance, the writer quoted from Marie Cecile Flaguel, a representative from a group that has contributed to the arts in 5Pointz, that “This is the biggest rag and disrespect in the history of graffiti" without explaining what do the words means. This pivotal information or explanation of her quotation should not be simply omitted by