Nat Turner's Skull

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Every author has different strategies for his or her writing that makes it unique. How the writer orders the paragraphs is what attracts the reader. In the Nat Turner’s Skull and My Student’s Purse of Skin essay, the author used strategies that differentiate him from the other authors.
First of all he started with the title, to introduce the topic of the essay. Second he used sarcasm and disapproves tone. To let the readers understand more the essay. Third strategy is logos. He used evidences such as National Geographic report for the skull. Fourth, Pathos. It means to let the audience engage with the text emotionally. As he mentioned in the last paragraph “Now it’s time you bring justice to those who were desecrated...”. Here we can notice

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