Related to scope, Weinthal uses big numbers to describe the size of the problem, unlike Grisham. Weinthal mentions 500,000 refugees in Turkey which cost about $260 each week for each family to stay alive. He talks about 17,000 refugees living in one specific camp, and of course the “two million” total number of displaced people from Syria in the past five years. Grisham only gives single examples and does not use actual names or talk about the statistics. The only number he uses is “40 percent,” which is how many homeless people are “substance abusers.” The rest of his piece his views on homelessness than an actual report on the problem. The reader can picture himself with John Grisham in Washington D.C. and can relate to the problem
