'Homeless In America' By Thomas L. Friedman

The article “Homeless in America” is written by Thomas L. Friedman, and from the Opinion Pages in New York Times. In the article, Friedman express his opinion and attitude toward Donald Trump being elected as the president of the United States.

In the article Friedman express his unpleasantness toward the newly elected president being Trump. One of them being his fear of the country breaking apart, owing to the population being divided beyond repair, which eventually would result in that the national government would stop function.
With Donald Trump now elected president, I have more fear than I’ve ever had in my 63 years that we could do just that — break our country, that we could become so irreparably divided that our national government

Then it would not benefit USA in the long term, instead it should win-win situation for everyone, because only then would it benefit everyone. Freidman later ask if those who voted for him knew how many of their jobs depend on the good relationship USA have with the rest of the world.

Throughout the article, Freidman primarily uses pathos since it is based on his opinion and a little bit of ethos. He uses ethos, when he mentioned Dov Seidman who, as we can see in the previous quote, is a reliable source. When he talks about what sort of role model Trump could be for the children, it is clear that he is using pathos. The style is subjective and personal especially at the end, he continuously writes about his fear. It is all from his perspective and towards the end he writes that he do not wish them ill, which is subjective and his personal opinion.
The sentences are very long, with only a few short one. He uses a lot of subjective adjectives and adverbs, such as really, seriously and profoundly disturbing which makes the article more subjective. He uses some more difficult word and term such as disruptive, compulsive and silver