In the story “The lovely stones”, the author Christopher Hitches explains a dilemma with the sculptures known as the parthenon sculptures.Hitches persuades the reader into supporting ideas of uniting the sculptures by adding emotional appeals, logic, and metaphor language. The author also describes how the illustrating sculptures should be united in Greece. When the author states that “the damage done by the ages to the building , cannot be our right”. He’s trying to say that that the fact that the parthenon has already experienced the mankind’s carelessness. The authors use of the emotion is a basic part of his work. The author gives a brief explanation of the history of the parthenon in an effort to place the dilemma, which he has