Blog Post 5

In the chapter “Influence / Speechlessness”, the logic of the beginning of this chapter is very good to attract readers and leave a deep impression in their mind. When a reader views the pages which are full of repeated words intensively, a question why the author make this strange beginning is generated. However, when the reader views the sentence attached at the end, the way that using the pages of intensive words gives the reader a clear and direct impression of the so large amount of animals consumed by humans. This logic is like an analog, which is giving you a picture or a story at first and then revealing a fact has the same characteristics with the former picture or story. Comparing with telling readers the truth directly, this logic can make readers remember what the author want to express. Within the same chapter, in the part of “Influenza”, when the author describes the risk and destruction of Spanish flu, the author uses a logic of comparison. He mentioned the death of AIDS, which is a terrible disease, and tells readers that killing the same amount of patients, AIDS will take twenty four years and Spanish flu just need twenty four weeks. At that time, in readers mind, Spanish flu is not just a common flu like a serious cold, it becomes a more horrible death than AIDS. Of course, this logic is successful to create the characteristics of Spanish flu, although the comparison just strengthens the velocity of death.