Indledning
The former president of the United States of America, Donald Trump, has managed to make his last days as president in the history of the USA remarkable, even though he has lost the election.
Many Americans feel they have an erratic and unstable president sitting with the key to atomic bombs and military weapons.
Many people have referred to the 25th Amendment to the United States Constitution, which proclaims that if the president becomes unable to do his job, the Vice President becomes the president. Even Donald Trump’s republican parties have confessed Trump's unstable situation.
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Uddrag
Arnolds starts his article with an anecdote from his childhood. He expresses his deep feelings for the USA, which helps the audience understand why he writes this article.
“THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA was my first love. I fell for this country long before I was lucky enough to live here.
From the moment I was exposed to my first images of skyscrapers, huge bridges, Cadillacs, beaches and Hollywood in grade school, I felt that I belonged here.” (Line 8 to 11)
Afterwards, he talks about the ending of the world war from his point of viewpoint of view, and how people followed the instrumental evilness Hitler introduced innocent people.
“They were part of a system that mur-dered 6m Jews along with at least 5m other innocent people, tortured and experimented on human beings and started a war that caused 75m deaths.
Not all of them were rabid anti-Semites or Nazis. Many just went along step by step down the road toward greater and greater evil because it was the easiest path.” (21 to 25)
He includes this anecdote because he experienced how people regret their actions while supporting Hitler and does not want to live through it once again.
He warns people to stop supporting Trump before they will regret it. Throughout the next part of the article, Arnold persuades by appealing to their feelings; this is pathos and is most common when convincing a crowd politically.
Pathos is shown when Arnold takes the rhetorical devices into use. He, for example, uses anaphora in line 13 to 14. “As an immigrant, as an American and as a Republican, it is my duty to speak up.”
This sentence features a repetition of the word ‘as’ at the beginning of successive sentences. This is an ordinary way of clarifying your emotions, and therefore it works well with pathos.
The writing method, simile, also cooperates with pathos. In this writing style, you are comparing by using like or as. For example, this is shown in line 52 to 53 “Today, he sounds like someone who travelled through time (though I thought that was my thing)”
He compares George Washington to someone who travelled through time because his farewell speech still is ruling.
At the same time, he uses a bit of humor in the ending of the sentence to make his audience comfortable with him.
George Washington warned the USA about the danger of political parties, and never put your party above the great American experiment.
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