Rhetorical Analysis Of Let There Be Dark

In a article title “Let there be dark” by Paul Bogard he makes an argument to persuade his audience to keep the natural darkness. The author makes an argument through many different ways to persuade to the audience on why the natural dark should be kept through emotion and logical breakdowns. Originally he starts by providing background information about his childhood and making the audience picture a beautiful night with gorgeous scenery and the experience he includes is one of his own to show that he is writing passionately about this. This immediately allows the reader to connect with bogard and invokes a sense of emotion because he doesn't bring up the experiences of others and their situation rather something Bogard was in, not anyone …show more content…
His argument is basically too much of something good can be bad and he shows what he means by that by showing what artificial light can do the body. The author quickly provides where he got the facts he claimed, which is from the World Health Association and the World Health Organization so immediately the reader is inclined to believe him since he got his facts from very reliable sources and now starts spewing more facts he got from both the Association and Organization as he says “That the night shift is a probable cause for human carcinogen.” Since during the night shift most people are exposed to more artificial light. This makes sense since the more exposure to artificial light the more likely a person is to develop certain types of cancer. Bogard also how goes into how it can cause certain sleep disorders such as using a smartphone in the night or television can be prone to have trouble sleeping since the design of those is main purpose is for entertainment and how they can keep you engaged and gain money not live a life healthily. He provides examples of what is bad for you and how anyone is capable of stopping light pollution just by doing their