Christine Dempsey portrays Richard Herron, 83, as a hero. She begins the article by describing the incident in which Herron and his two sons came across a woman who had crashed her car on I-84. Running to car to assist the lady, he failed to see the tractor-trailer coming his way, until his son called out to him, and he jumped over a barrier, and down 35 feet to the gravel underneath. He died in the hospital later that day.
Dempsey writes the article using small lines throughout the article to tell the story. She composes the first few lines about the actual event, describing the setting, the fate of the hero, and what led to the crashing of the car. She then continues the article by recounting the life of Herron. She first writes that they came across the accident on their way to a male-bonding trip in Maine, then continues by describing his personality, as told by his daughter. She finishes by detailing other ways he has helped both people and the overall community in which he had always resided in. By doing so, she includes pathos. Her structure builds up Herron, painting him as a hero, and then proving it with examples from his life. She removes herself completely from the story in any other way, by only using details provided from his daughter, and those that were cold, hard facts. Logos is established by Dempsey through her description of Herron's completely average life, but including all of his good deeds, beginning the article with his final heroic act and ending with how his actions impacted others.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/hc-hartford-fall-from-crash-1009-20121008,0,7109980.story
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