Driving to the Funeral
1. Quindlin uses facts when persuading her audience, like “car crashes are the No.1 cause of death among 15-20-year-olds in this country.” and “the drinking age was raised from 18 to 21.”
2. Quindlin appeals to the emotions of parents losing their kids. She uses terms like “A mom and dad rise from their seats on the athletic field or in the gym to accept a diploma posthumously” and “The yearbook has a picture or two with a black border.”
3. Quindlin uses rhetorical questions like “if someone told you that there was one single behavior that would be most likely to lead to the premature death of your kid, wouldn’t you try to do something about that?” and “why not let 13-year-olds drive?” And to reinforce these statements and qestions, she uses “facts”
4. Quindlin is fairly persuasive to those with the same opinion, but unsure people, if they really read this article and hae reason of their own, will find faults that if exposed, knock the whole thing down.
