The essay “Blindness,” by Jorge Luis Borges uses ethos throughout the composition to establish his credibility as an author. Through making this personal connection, Borges draws the audience in due to the factual elements found in his writing. Borges is a blind man who still has partial blindness in one eye, but none in the other. Despite his condition he still wrote numerous books and even earned his directorship at the library. In 1955, he lost his reader’s and writer’s sight. Borges discusses the irony of being granted both blindness and books at the same time in his book “Poem of the Gifts.”
