In the photo essay “, Farming on the Frontlines in Gaza,” the author Jost Franko discusses the worn-torn farmers of Palestinian farmers and how they deal with growing crops when war is all around them. He talks about how the country’s location impacts them because of the countries ongoing battles. Franko is arguing that these worn-torn countries need protection and support because they are barely surviving in these awful conditions. Franko does a good job at doing this by showing photos of many different disasters these people are facing and then using text to better help explain what is going on in them. In this essay, Franko uses 19 photos that are all in black and white with text to describe these photos he first describes where Gaza
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If you look at all of his photos throughout his essay you will see that they are all black and white. Looking at picture 13 you see three little kids with what looks like their father living in terrible conditions. Which being in black and white adds a dark and gloomy feel to the picture because it makes the photo itself look sad. This is perfect for what Franko is trying to portray in his essay, he wants the audience to feel sad and use this sadness to motivate them to act. So that is a big pathos appeal and strengths the heart strings being pulled from the audience reading this essay. Franko also uses a broad range of pictures not just focusing on one thing for them. He uses pictures of people, animals, and even military influences on these farmers. He adds all of these different images to show many sides of this same story because these challenges are not only affecting the farmers trying to grow crops. In picture 6 a donkey is seen, which is very skinny, eating from a bucket laying down next to a rundown stable. So it is seen that these struggles are also impacting the animals live there such as livestock that the farmers use. Another very good use of pathos but also ethos, the world has their ideas on how animals should be treated and these images clash with that so it will bring out more motivation in the audience. In picture 7 rocket heads are laying …show more content…
He does a very good job of arguing this by using ethos and pathos to appeal to the audiences’ ethics and emotions but he also uses some logos to add some statistics to support him. His use of the black and white images put an image in his readers’ heads when they are reading his essay so they can imagine it better which makes the use very effective. Finally, his use of captions add to his images by describing them better so the audience knows exactly what is going on and adds to the
If you look at all of his photos throughout his essay you will see that they are all black and white. Looking at picture 13 you see three little kids with what looks like their father living in terrible conditions. Which being in black and white adds a dark and gloomy feel to the picture because it makes the photo itself look sad. This is perfect for what Franko is trying to portray in his essay, he wants the audience to feel sad and use this sadness to motivate them to act. So that is a big pathos appeal and strengths the heart strings being pulled from the audience reading this essay. Franko also uses a broad range of pictures not just focusing on one thing for them. He uses pictures of people, animals, and even military influences on these farmers. He adds all of these different images to show many sides of this same story because these challenges are not only affecting the farmers trying to grow crops. In picture 6 a donkey is seen, which is very skinny, eating from a bucket laying down next to a rundown stable. So it is seen that these struggles are also impacting the animals live there such as livestock that the farmers use. Another very good use of pathos but also ethos, the world has their ideas on how animals should be treated and these images clash with that so it will bring out more motivation in the audience. In picture 7 rocket heads are laying …show more content…
He does a very good job of arguing this by using ethos and pathos to appeal to the audiences’ ethics and emotions but he also uses some logos to add some statistics to support him. His use of the black and white images put an image in his readers’ heads when they are reading his essay so they can imagine it better which makes the use very effective. Finally, his use of captions add to his images by describing them better so the audience knows exactly what is going on and adds to the