The author uses the emotion of the survivors of the Las Vegas shooting as a vessel for their thoughts. As the story unfolds and survivors stories pile on the author adds more and more quotes and gut-wrenching tales of what people did to survive the investment for the author gets stronger and stronger. The author's tone is candid, compassionate, and formal. The author dropped a whopping load of pathos throughout the article as each survivors story is told and how those complete strangers worked together to help those who they did not know and all they knew was they were hurt or dying and they used whatever knowledge they could to help people. They triaged and got people the medical attention they needed by “borrowing” a strangers truck and asking people to use their truck beds to load up strangers to go to the hospital. Strangers who “had two arms and had two legs..hadn’t been shot .. and knew people were in danger” went and helped those who couldn't help themselves and became human shields and lost their lives and were grazed by bullets to help people they didn’t know. Anyone with a heart can feel that. The author wanted to air the feelings of the survivors and the unsung heroes who made that horrific day have fewer casualties. The author wastes no time with fluff throughout the article. They open their argument with a story from Dean McAuley who found a path out but turned back to help people as he was a firefighter and he had “to go to work”. He helped Natalia Baca that day and received a text from her father thanking him for saving his daughter’s life. McAuley’s story was the first of many that all revolved around the idea that “we all became one that night.” A community of strangers brought together by crisis work together to save lives.
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AuthorKennedy Fitch AP English and Language Composition Student. Archives
April 2018
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