Similarities:
• Both share the domestic violence topic
• Both share a personal experience
• Both share health consequences of physical abuse
• Both promote a strong pathos to provide a guilt and pity feeling to the audience
• Both question the help of others towards the physical abused victim
Differences:
“Zero Tolerance”
• Focuses more in the victim’s physical consequences like broken bones, black eyes, and internal hemorrhaging.
• Focuses more in providing the reasons why the law is not doing much to help the abused wife’s.
• Focuses in questioning how society does not do much to try to help and try to stop the abuser.
• Focuses more in the victim’s impact after the physical …show more content…
Both essays use a personal experience of a physical abuse they heard of by a person close to them. They also share a strong explanation of physical damage that is present when a women is abused by a much strong man. Likewise both have a strong use of pathos to create a pity and guilt feeling to the reader, and finally both question the society’s contribution towards the victims. Although both provide several similarities they also have different views of the domestic abuse on the victims. In the essay titled “Zero Tolerance”, the main focuses of domestic violence are the physical abuse consequences, the question of how law enforcement is dealing with the abusers, questions how society constantly ignores the problem, and finally provides a deeper understanding of the real impact to the women’s life after the constant physical and emotional abuse. In contrast, the essay titled “No More” focuses more in providing a deeper understanding of the real definition of domestic violence is, it provides statistics on the rate of deaths caused by physical abuse, provides clear reasons why an abused women take so long to leave the abuser, and finally focuses on solutions to help stop domestic