Poor Haitian Farmers Are Left Hopeless After the Storm

Archibald for the New York Times begins the article with some heavy pathos- a useful strategy in order for audiences to sympathize with suffering Haitian single mothers and whole families killed in mudslides. More pathos is crated with the use of logos in the fact that the small island nation is still recovering from the 2010 earthquake, and Sandy certainly did not help the already dismal situation. More pathos with the hardworking men and women trying to harvest their fruits in the mucky and poor soil conditions due to the storm- Archibald basically says, "these people need help, so why don't YOU do something about it?". He uses logos to demonstrate the total costs of damages from just Sandy, then just the earthquake, and then the total combined with fatalities and the spread of disease, establishing more pathos. By intertwining pathos and logos throughout his article, Archibald presents the cold faceless facts, and then a personal story that helps to create the data. All in all, it is a very moving article, and a necessary one, considering that Haiti has been out of the news for about 3 years although there is much more work to be done.