Edward Abbey Response.

Abbey’s audience is people willing to preserve the wilderness of Natural parks in the United States. Abbey approaches his audience by creating a At the beginning of the story, Abbey construct the pathos and ethos trough a very informal narrative and language. He describes himself as a worker of the national park; his narrative describes in a very detailed fashion several specific experiences that he is going trough as a National Park worker. This is how he build credibility and authority. Then he makes the audience sympathize with the feelings and the positive emotions of the wilderness experience. Once he has build ethos and pathos trough his personal experience he states the problem of the Industrial tourism. He switches to a much more formal tone to explain the potential harm of the industrial tourism and the necessity of our society for “wilderness”.