Analyzing Christopher Hitchens The Lovely Stones

In the article “The lovely Stones”, written and adapted from christopher Hitchens, he explains the problem with Greece artifacts being in different museums, and the problems that occur from it. He mildly explains the back history of the artifacts and how they formed into the museums. The way he tells the reader is through grammer tools. Hitchens likes to add emotions while writing. While giving back history about the artifacts, he uses emotional appeal. This adds emotions to the reader while reading. A great example he uses is “...the Acropolis was made to fly a Nazi flag during the German occupation of Athens.” With this back history, This can make the reader feel sympathy for the Acropolis because they had to put up a Nazi flag against their will. Although not beneficial to the argument, it hooks the reader on to read more. Another great example used by the author is “...result the remaining sculptures and statues on the parthenon and statues on the parthenon were nastily eroded by “acid rain”. Yes, this gives more back history, but through emotions.

Hitchens does just that. He adds a great amount of detail and support to add pictures in the reader's mind. For example “...Lord Elgin, sent a wrecking crew to the turkish-occupied territory… and sent it away.” What they sent away was the Nazi flag that was harshfully put on the statue and put into a museum. This adds support to his claim because it adds on to what he said prior to that. Another example is, “...British government in 1816 for 2.2 million in today's currency to pay off his many debts.” This adds plenty of support and puts an image in the readers