Pandemic

In Stephen Lewis's article "Pandemic", he used a combination of logos, ethos and pathos, these 3 way for rhetorical appeals which give readers a clearly picture of how struggling African people is facing to because of AIDS. Reading his article likes we are having a trip with him in Africa, and he is not only taking us to different African countries but also giving us a historical lectures because his stories and examples are from 60s to 2005. He uses his real experiences and stories to show us how they made all the effort to Africa over and over again to help local people to fight against AIDS. In the article, Lewis uses lots of pathos which I think is the most effective way to the purpose of his writing. Like the example on page 383, Lewis described how plea people want food! "it was incomparably sad; I had no food to give them, but that's all they really wanted of me" and then following paragraph he tells us "the question of hunger becomes so much more critical in the presence of AIDS", "if the patient has nothing to eat; the body can't handle the drug without food". When I was reading this part I was picturing that how eagerly African people were asking food and how bad they would have to suffer from the drug without food for digestion. It makes readers have sympathy that not only medically help African people but also need to help them to solve food shortage. I think his article, "Pandemic" effectively gets readers' attention and I believe people who read this article will have more concerns for Africa and would like to support people there.

Discussion question: for us, as a student, do you think which way we can help or support African children?