Paul Bogard Let There Be Darkness Rhetorical Analysis

In the essay, “Our Vanishing Night”, Verlyn Klinkenborg discusses light pollution. Light pollution is due to human’s use of artificial light during the night. Klinkenborg uses examples of how this type of pollution effects not only humans and their biological clocks, but how it effects other organisms in the wild. In this essay, I will analyze the author argument and aspects of it that includes authority, topic, tone, context, exigence, and audience to determine whether the essay was effective or ineffective in getting Klinkenborg’s argument across to the reader.

In Holly Wren Spaulding’s essay, “In Defense of Darkness,” her main claim is that we have fallen away from darkness and immersed ourselves in a society of lightness. Furthermore, she claims this has lead humans to lose touch with basic human emotion as well as the sensual and spiritual experience true darkness has to offer. Spaulding makes this claim evident through exceptional use of personal testimony and copious appeals to value.

Elie Wiesel wrote a book called Night and Night is about his life experience during the holocaust and to explain his experience during the holocaust elie wiesel used literary elements like image clusters, pathos, tones, and metaphors for the readers to get into more detail and to feel a certain way about his experience.

“Magic mirror on the wall, who’s the fairest of them all?”, is a popular quote from the original Disney movie, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Usually, the town ministers are considered the most honorable, or the fairest people, but they too are not always innocent. In the short story, “The Minister's Black Veil” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, the town minister, Reverend Hooper, conceals his face with a black crape causing disruptions in the town. Incorporating the use of archetypes, rhetorical questions, and antithesis, readers are able to come to a common understanding. Through his craftsmanship, Hawthorne expresses that no one can be freed from sin as it surrounds even the most joyous of people and places.

Have you ever been through a situation that has hindered you to an extent of where you couldn’t find the right words to express how it made you feel or what happened in that specific event? If so, then you’re not alone. Survivors of the holocaust, a genocide that took place during World War II to systematically kill millions of Jews, have too had a difficult time expressing the horrific period of their life after they were taken from the comfort of their homes and sent to concentration camps. Elie Wiesel, a main character in the novel Night, was a survivor and one of those people who didn’t know what words to use in terms of telling his experiences in the captivity. As a result, Wiesel found other techniques to use, which includes using words as symbols, repetition and explaining how the original meaning of a word is sometimes not enough to thoroughly tell the full story.

In the book night, the author uses many different kinds of tones but the tone that stands out to me the most is like scary.

In the beginning of Bogard's essay, he shares a short anecdote about his cabin at night. This hook lets the audience know that Bogard has been, and seen, the sky and the fact that it is slowly fading away. The anecdote also has a lot of imagery and affects the audience's emotions a little. It makes us feel worried, wanting to read more, hoping for a solution. Bogard’s essay was effective because of the amount of evidence, the reasoning to illustrate that evidence, and the imagery/ word choice.

In his essay, Paul Bogard argues that it is necessary to preserve darkness. Paul is trying to persuade the reader to take his side and help him achieve his goal of saving natural darkness. To do this, Paul uses tons of rhetorical devices and appeals to emotions while also providing facts and studies to support his argument. His main weapon though, is the way he talks to the reader. His tone is what makes his essay an effective one.

Due to the night's natural darkness loss, writer Paul Bogard argues that natural obscurity should be preserved, in his article "Let there be dark". The author uses anecdotes, evidence - such as organization's quotation and startling facts - and rethorical questions in order to deliver a convincing argument.

In response to our society’s growing reliance on artificial light, writer Paul Bogard argues that natural darkness should be preserved in his article, “Let there be dark”. He effectively builds this argument by using a personal anecdote, allusions to art and history as well as rhetorical questions.

In his newspaper article, “Let There Be Dark”, Paul Bogard tries to persuade his audience to stop light pollution by pointing out the negative effects light pollution is causing. He always tries to persuade them by using personal anecdotes to get on the light-hearted side of his audience. Bogard discusses the health issues that accompanies a lack of darkness to make his audience understand that the effects touch everyone and not just a certain group of people. By mentioning that our bodies need the hormone melatonin, and without this hormone our own bodies would soon begin to create a war with our health, he urges people to cut the use of too much light and embrace the darkness. This makes Bogard’s audience come to realization about the importance

In the article “Let There be Dark” by Paul Bogard, he is trying to convince and persuade people that natural darkness should be preserved. However, the ways in which he does that is the most interesting thing about this article, since he is very good at convincing people about his cause. Throughout “Let There be Dark,” Paul Bogard uses many techniques in order to persuade the readers that natural darker should be preserved, including stylistic devices, rhetoric devices and the modes of persuasion.

In Paul Bogard's essay, Let There Be Dark, he discusses the decline of natural darkness, and it's effect on society and the world. One of the ways he tries to persuade the audience that natural darkness must be preserved is by using personal anecdotes to increase his ethos. He also does this by using statistical evidence, and by warning the readers of the dangers of decreasing natural darkness. In the end, he provides suggestions and possible solutions to the problem to help the audience realize that the situation is not hopeless. Bogard begins the essay with a personal account of himself at his family's cabin in Minnesota, where he experiences natural darkness.

In the passage, Bogard proposes various arguments on natural darkness and its preservation. He tries to persuade the reader that preserving natural darkness is crucial by providing examples based on an organisms health, religious practices, and a national problem. The author also uses statistics to further express his opinion to the reader.

The researchers developed the ‘world Atlas of artificial sky luminance’ as a means of mapping variations in light pollution around the globe. The baseline for the data begins with “Natural lighting levels (which) are governed by natural celestial sources, mainly the Moon, natural atmospheric emission (airglow), the stairs and Milky Way, and zodiacal light” (Research). The research article provides a baseline equation of what defines a clean moon-less night - “22 magnitude per square arcsecond in Johnson-Cousins V-brand. The results found that although the sky immediately above the source of the pollution was the most intense, light pollution managed to “function with peak at intermediate angles.”(research) which the article later states is 30° above the horizon. A surprising detail was that light pollution managed to extend beyond the horizon by a significant amount and still hold a substantial impact on the night sky. The exact statistics used by media sites are “that about 83% of the world’s population and more than 99% of the U.S and European populations live under light-polluted skies. Due to light pollution, the Milky Way is not visible to more than one-third of humanity”(Research). As a surprising detail pertaining to population density, Canada has roughly 80% of its land-mass with pristine skies yet 97% of its population live in some form of light-polluted levels. All other G20 Countries are broken down in the same way. The obvious conclusion is that light pollution is a global problem that “has enveloped our planet in a luminous fog that prevents most of Earth’s population from having the opportunity to observe our galaxy”(Research). Proposed solutions brought forth by the research article can only speculate like future