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Hurricane Matthew Rhetorical Analysis

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Hurricane Matthew began to form itself from a tropical wave off the coast of Africa in late September. It has been calculated that 26 citizens have died as a result of Hurricane Matthew’s flooding. Robert Ray, the author of the CNN News article, ‘‘Hurricane Matthew: Days of disaster unfold under a cloudless sky,’’ wrote this to inform his audience of the monstrous damage that the hurricane has done from Florida to North Carolina, after it hit Haiti and other Caribbean countries. His audience is the family and love ones of the citizens that experienced the hurricane hit and those that are concerned of the terror the people went through and want to find more information in how to help. Ray’s use of appeal to pathos helps him effectively be able …show more content…

Wilkins says her reaction ‘‘broke my heart.’’ The family has gone through a similar situation in 1999 when Hurricane Floyd hit their hometown, Princeville. When reading this, the audience can feel sorry for Wilkin’s family in Princeville; in contrast, instead of this family grieving in their home, they go out to help their own community rebuild what Hurricane Matthews destroyed. The audience feels an admiration for the Wilkins family being a light of positivity, while still in their own storm, to help guide other families that were hit by Hurricane Matthew’s destruction. Another example of his use of appeal to pathos is Detherine Hyman and her family’s story. With her daughter and mother, who is in a wheelchair, she evacuated Princeville and have been living in their SUV since then. "It's hard, I cried for like two days, but I'm trying to hold myself together for my daughter and my mom," Detherine Hyman said. This tells the reader that there are tears shed and pain spread as many families, like Hyman and Wilkins, have felt as a result of Hurricane Matthews. As citizens living in the Earth should come together to clean up the tears and be able to take away the pain these citizens went through because we need to help out to rebuild their community. Overall, with Ray’s use of appeal to pathos makes his

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