John Burns Use Of Ethos Pathos Logos

In 1996, John F. Burns wrote the article “Walled In, Shrouded and Angry in Afghanistan. As he was speaking to all the first world countries and people who can help this change. He wrote this article to inform readers about what's going on with the Muslim Women in Kabul who are suffering because the Taliban is in control. During the article John Burns uses a desperate tone when he said “When i look around me now, I can see nothing but a new calamity, a life of further Misery on top of everything else we have suffered”. Throughout his speech, John F Burns uses many different Rhetorical appeals which are logos, pathos, and ethos. The first example of ethos is when John Burns writes “Dr. Abdul Samad, the hospital’s medical director, said that he made a deal with the Taliban's new health minister, a Muslim cleric named Massoumi, that five of the 35 female doctors and nurses could work each day”. He uses ethos by stating what Doctor Abdul Samad who is a credible source because he is doctor which means he is highly educated and has talked to the Taliban. Another example of John Burns using ethos is when he wrote “Mr. MacFadden said that the Taliban clerics had proved flexible in Kandahar the southern city where the Taliban movement has its religious headquarters”. John Burns uses words from McFadden

In this quote John Burns uses pathos to appeal to the audience's emotions and tell the that women are scared and being mistreated. Another example is when John F. Burns writes “ Taliban youths took sticks to three women in the street outside the Jamhuryiet hospital because their ankles showed beneath their head-to-foot shrouds.”Here John Burns uses pathos again to appeal to the audience feelings on a 3 women being beat by