Personification
It is personification because the qualities of earth, or moreover, society, are given human-like abilities.
My dear Alex,
You will be glad to know that my brother’s marriage is taking place on 25th Nov. My brother has asked me to invite you.
So you are cordially invited to attend the marriage. You are requested to come two or three days before the marriage to help us in preparations.
Please convey my best regards to your parents and love to Youngers.
Yours sincerely,
Sarah
Moishe the Beadle, who is a foreign Jew, is expelled from Sighet (which is in Hungary) and sent to Poland. There, the Gestapo takes over his train and orders Jews to get off and board trucks. They are taken to woods near the Galician forest and told to get out of the trucks and dig deep trenches. Then the Gestapo soldiers order each person to approach the trenches and bear his or her neck, and each person is shot. Babies are tossed into the air and used for target practice. Moishe is able to escape because he was shot in the leg and believed to be dead.
Moishe returns to Sighet to warn the community of the fate that awaits them so that they can prepare. He says, "I wanted to return to Sighet to describe to you my death so that you might ready yourselves while there is still time" (page 7). However, no one in Sighet believes him, and they think he is insane. They do not heed his warning.
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Logos: uses reasoning
pathos:appeals to emotions
ethos:credibility
so pathos
