I, personally, like to sleep; in order to sleep, I need a quiet, dark place. Natural darkness has been in the line of fire for a while, suggests Paul Bogard, and in his article “Let There Be Dark,” he wields imagery and rhetorical appeals as weapons to build his argument that natural darkness should be preserved.
Bogard immediately pulls the reader in with powerful imagery describing a wholesome anecdote about spending time at his family’s lake cabin. He conjures up an image of the Minnesota “night skies” with “sugary spreads of stars” behind “smoky trails” left from meteors, which gives the reader a clear view of the setting of the scene. Later, when discussing nature’s need for natural darkness, Bogard states, “ecological light pollution is like the bulldozer of the night, wrecking habitat and disrupting ecosystems,” creating a disturbing image that moves the reader. An actual image, as well as a rhetorical question, he uses a …show more content…
Another thing that adds to his ethical credibility is his reasonable counterargument that showcased the amount of research and effort he put into it.
“Already, many cities and towns across North America and Europe are changing to LED streetlights…Paris…turns off its monument lighting after 1 a.m. [and] will…start to require its shops, offices and public buildings to turn off lights after 2 a.m.”
In his argument for the preservation of natural darkness, Bogard uses imagery and the rhetorical appeals to persuade the reader to reflect more intently on the subject—the preservation of darkness. I think that Bogard makes a good argument, using the right features and elements of persuasive rhetoric to win the reader over. And if less natural darkness means less sleep, I simply can’t stand for
Bogard immediately pulls the reader in with powerful imagery describing a wholesome anecdote about spending time at his family’s lake cabin. He conjures up an image of the Minnesota “night skies” with “sugary spreads of stars” behind “smoky trails” left from meteors, which gives the reader a clear view of the setting of the scene. Later, when discussing nature’s need for natural darkness, Bogard states, “ecological light pollution is like the bulldozer of the night, wrecking habitat and disrupting ecosystems,” creating a disturbing image that moves the reader. An actual image, as well as a rhetorical question, he uses a …show more content…
Another thing that adds to his ethical credibility is his reasonable counterargument that showcased the amount of research and effort he put into it.
“Already, many cities and towns across North America and Europe are changing to LED streetlights…Paris…turns off its monument lighting after 1 a.m. [and] will…start to require its shops, offices and public buildings to turn off lights after 2 a.m.”
In his argument for the preservation of natural darkness, Bogard uses imagery and the rhetorical appeals to persuade the reader to reflect more intently on the subject—the preservation of darkness. I think that Bogard makes a good argument, using the right features and elements of persuasive rhetoric to win the reader over. And if less natural darkness means less sleep, I simply can’t stand for