Hurricane Maria has been over for about a month and people are still strongly feeling the effects. The author of these article uses an appeal to logic as well as imagery to further bring out his statement that Puerto Rico is in dire need of our help. The author appeals to the readers logic throughout the whole entire article. An example of this would be when he had stated that there are "3.4 million people in Puerto Rico and 35% of households don't have access to safe drinking water." This brings into perspective that over one third of homes in Puerto Rico are without a safe source of the basic component of life. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has stepped in and had given 23.6 million liters of water to these people, yet according to the article that is only 9% of what is actually needed for the entire territory. This means that not even one-tenth of the nation is covered with safe water. When the author isn't using very specific statistics to back up his argument, he is using information to illustrate the condition that Puerto Rico is in. The author immediately starts of by saying "...Hurricane Maria toppled the bridge that connected him to civilization and ripped of the roof and walls of his house". He uses the word "ripped" to illustrate the not only destruction that Maria caused, but the way that it had so negatively affected people, especially in more remote areas. The author continues to describe the mountains of the island has mountains covered in "branch-less trees, stuck in the dirt like walking sticks of giants." This creates an image of havoc in the readers mind knowing that the forest has been torn after by something so powerful. The author goes on further to say that "power lines are tangled about like spaghetti dropped in the sky" and "sheet metal from roofs and fencing has been turned in floppy strips of chewing gum." In this image one can just image the difficulty that people are having with living in these conditions. Without their power lines, there is no power which can mean no heat or air conditioner as well as their completely trashed land due to the debris of Hurricane Maria. The author had really made sure that the reader connect the statistics to his descriptions of Puerto Rico at this time to emphasize the amount of help needed in such a county. http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/18/health/puerto-rico-one-month-without-water/index.html
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