Rhetorical Analysis Of Let There Be Dark

Paul Bogard effectively made use of his article “Let There Be Dark” to inform his audience about the importance of preserving natural darkness at night. He effectively build his argument by using personal anecdotes, simile, appealing to emotions and logic,and offering solutions. Paul begins introducing his article by using personal anecdotes and memories. He remembers having the opportunity to see nighty skies and meteors, but unfortunately children in United States today are unable to have this opportunity. This is for the reason that usually all life evolved to the steady rhythm of bright days and dark nights. But today when nightfall, we quick to switch on lights, spoiling the benefit of natural darkness. By showing that Paul experience both artificial light and natural darkness, Paul shows that his point of view might be insightful. In the third , Paul uses an anecdote to allude to the health problems caused by artificial lights. He sites that the World Health Organization has voiced that “light pollution reduction efforts and glare reduction efforts at both the national and state levels.” Paul also says, “Our bodies need darkness to produce the hormone melatonin, which keeps certain cancers from developing and our …show more content…
"Some examples are well known—the 400 species of birds that migrate at night in North America, the sea turtles that come ashore to lay their eggs—and some are not, such as the bats that save American farmers billions in pest control and the moths that pollinate 80% of the world’s flora." Here Paul appeals to humans sends of logic by siting examples of animals that would collapse without darkness. He also uses simile to show the destructiveness light pollution. "Ecological light pollution is like the bulldozer of the night, wrecking habitat and disrupting ecosystems several billion years in the