Preserving Natural Darkness In Paul Bogard's Let There Be Dark

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In Paul Bogard’s article “Let there be dark” he’s making an argument to persuade his audience to preserve natural darkness. Bogard builds his argument in a different ways. Bogard uses a personal story, he appeals to emotion, and he states benefits of having natural darkness, and no artificial light. By using a personal story Bogard allows his audience to connect and relate with him. The personal story shows that the issue of preserving natural darkness isn’t just some silly topic to discuss, but something that he honestly cares for. In his personal story Bogard uses great imagery making the audience picture what he saw and maybe make them want to know what that’s like too. Bogard is very passionate and believes strongly that people should preserve

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