Throughout the human history, there are has been conflicts between different countries. Likewise, conflicts between different cultures inside countries can emerge. These conflicts can increase significantly and play a big role in relation to the social order. Fortunately, these relatively short periods of conflict (seen in a historical perspective) are often replaced by long periods of peace and a respect between the involved parts. A known conflict between two cultures is the conflict between Protestants and Catholics in Northern Ireland, which lasted from 1968 to 1998. Bono, the lead singer of the Irish Band U2, relates to this conflict. In the article “In Ireland, Tuesday’s Grace” written by Bono in 2010, Bono describes the anger Irish people towards Great Britain after the “Bloody Sunday”. Besides that, he describes how the Irish people are trying to get on with life after the massacre.
Bono describes how the Irish view on Great Britain slowly changed, when the former Prime Minister, David Cameron, came with an official apology for the massacre on behalf of the Great Britain and the Government.
…show more content…
The way Bono doing it does that the article gets a lot of pathos because he describes specific incidents from the conflict. The use of pathos makes the reader become affected emotionally and thinking of the conflict. When Bono writes about the conflict as he does, you could argue that it is a good way to do this be-cause he is trying to explain to the reader how and why the conflict has changed. Any use of logos appeal would not have worked quite as well as pathos. Logos would have made it impersonal in the fact that logos contribute to Scientific studies, statistical information, various data or