A Rhetorical Analysis Of Kolbert's The Sea Around Us

The bubbling pool of acid: Acidification most disastrous event in the history of our planet There have been five mass extinctions over the last half-billion years while the sixth extinction is currently being examined by scientists around the world. Studies have shown that this is the most shocking and damaging event since the impact that caused the extinction of dinosaurs. This one is different from all others, because humans are the cause of this disaster to our current environment. If we don’t start to realize this issue and do something about it, eventually it will be too late to try to save the Earth and ourselves. I am going to analyze the sixth chapter, “The Sea Around Us,” for pathos, ethos, visual rhetoric and other related issues

Her background gives her the ability to be creative in her writing. Her professional and assertive style of writing gives her the credibility for readers to believe her even if the facts weren’t true. She regularly uses scientific research, in ways to help the reader understand what is occurring without using scientific terminology that is too difficult to understand. With the use of unique structure, it aids to communicate her argument better, as it helps build her ethos, and keep the reader interested and well informed. Her use of ethos makes the readers want to continue to keep reading. The fact that she has actually visited and can give details about the island, Castello Argonese, as well gives her creditability instead of second hand knowledge. One can infer the validity of her travels in the way she describes the location of Castello Argonese. “Eighteen miles west of Naples, it can be reached from a larger island of Ischia via a long, narrow stone bridge” (111). If you know what something smells, or looks like, you are going to care more, and ultimately be more interested. The author’s use of visual rhetoric is astonishing. It allows the reader to latch on and create an image to break up the monotony, and gives familiarization with the comparisons of things related to common knowledge. She uses this example, “Coralline algae organisms that grow in colonies that looks like a smear of pink paint” (121). This example sells us on the how the ocean is, and what you can distinguish the colonies to look