This narration continues into the second paragraph where he talks about attending a town meeting where some gas company tries to convince them to let them build a pipeline for hydraulic fracturing. The oil companies seemed like they were going to frack with or without the city’s permission. Lennon states, “… many of them organic farmers, were openly defiant. The gas companies didn’t seem to care” (pg#). The way he says how the oil didn’t care or not if the town agreed they were going to frack either way was very smart it really gets the audience to side with Lennon. This is a really successful use of the narration because it gets the readers to start not liking the oil companies before they know the facts about how the oil companies are running people’s lives by fracking and ruin the town by fowling the wells. This still appeals to pathos, …show more content…
Authorities, or “big names”, is when the author refers to a credible institution or agency (“Introduction to Rhetorical Strategies”). Lennon does this to build his credibility and be as trustworthy as he can possibly be to his audience. The first place he does this is “Few people are aware that America’s Natural Gas Alliance has spent $80 million in a publicity campaign that… told America that tobacco had no verifiable links to cancer” (pg#). This is very effective because the America’s Natural Gas Alliance is a huge name in the gas industry and they paid off the public to say that there is no evidence that tobacco is harmful. This appeals to logos because this is a very big organization that works on the side of the gas companies and makes it very well known. This appeals to pathos a lot too because it shows how corrupt that the gas companies are, they are purposely hiding the truth from people to make money from people no matter the cost. This makes the reader feel angry finding out this information and shows that these companies can’t be