The third review is on the BBC article Kenya student: How health insurance saved my life, by Anne Soy, a BBC Africa health correspondent.
The third article is about an eighteen year old high school student from Kenya named Edgar Mullili that is suffering from cancer of the esophagus. Edgar claims that without the health insurance in Kenya, his parents would not be able to afford his treatment and he would have died. This is a common tragedy in lesser developed countries where health insurance is out of reach for the general population.
Anne Soy wrote this article with the intent of appealing to the reader's pathos. The subject is about a young boy living in a poor country who could have died. This kind of topic will always invoke the emotions of people who read about it, as it is quite a sad situation that occurs frequently. The author, typical for her writing style, uses a professional tone to convey information in a respectable matter. This tone also establishes ethos because it allows the reader to take the writer seriously, as well as take the statistics and information provided in the article seriously. The author also creates appeals to ethos by providing statistics on many of the economic problems people face in the world. For example, she provides the reader with a statistic stating that 150 million people around the world suffer from financial catastrophe.
The author's purpose for writing this article was to, like many of her articles, spread awareness of the poorer conditions in African countries. This article also serves a secondary purpose, whether intentional or not, to make people be grateful for the situations they are in, and the lives they live. If they are reading the article through a computer screen, then chances are that the reader is in a much more fortunate situation than the boy that was written about in this article.
Anne Soy wrote this article with the intent of appealing to the reader's pathos. The subject is about a young boy living in a poor country who could have died. This kind of topic will always invoke the emotions of people who read about it, as it is quite a sad situation that occurs frequently. The author, typical for her writing style, uses a professional tone to convey information in a respectable matter. This tone also establishes ethos because it allows the reader to take the writer seriously, as well as take the statistics and information provided in the article seriously. The author also creates appeals to ethos by providing statistics on many of the economic problems people face in the world. For example, she provides the reader with a statistic stating that 150 million people around the world suffer from financial catastrophe.
The author's purpose for writing this article was to, like many of her articles, spread awareness of the poorer conditions in African countries. This article also serves a secondary purpose, whether intentional or not, to make people be grateful for the situations they are in, and the lives they live. If they are reading the article through a computer screen, then chances are that the reader is in a much more fortunate situation than the boy that was written about in this article.
Soy, Anne. "Kenya Student: How Health Insurance Saved My Life." BBC News. BBC, 10 Oct. 2016. Web. 12 May 2017. <http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37584302>.