David Suzuki Analysis

David Suzuki is a Canadian scholar and an environmentalist. Born in 1936, Suzuki has been a great scientist known for the campaigns of a sustainable environment. Suzuki has written many articles and books that have been noticed to intrigue the public with his words and form of writing (Suzuki, p2). This essay will focus on the analysis of three of David’s writings. The first article goes by the title, get your kids way from the screen to the green. This was an article that appeared in the western star column on 30/09/12. The second article: Climate change deniers are almost extinct was also written by the same author and featured in the western star magazine on 25/08/12. The third article has the title are plastic bags necessary and was also
David uses this word in his entire articles to draw the attention into his articles. He uses this world to share in his thoughts and also make them engaged in his work through the deep connection created between the readers and the author. This makes the reader feel that there is a need to work together with David or rather that they should be together in the context (Gaskel, p12). For instance in the first article, Get your kids away from the screen, David says,” what we need to do is to encourage them…We need to make sure…” This makes the reader feel involved in what needs to be done to the children. In the second article, climate change, David says, “we can all work to reduce our individual impact, but we can…. Here the readers are reminded that all activities by everyone on the planet have an impact on climate change. In the third article, David says,” if we have any hope of finding… we have to learn to use our resources efficiently. Still in this article the use of the world we, makes the reader feel involved in the need for better resource utilization (Western Star
In his work David uses different ways that appeal to the emotion of the readers (Joyce, p 8). In the article get your kids away from the screen, his reflection as being a kid to bring out the excitement that comes with playing outside. This feeling of adventures of children makes the parents see that they need to let their children play outside to enjoy a period full of joy and happiness. As a reader is reading this, he or she also remembers individual childhood days thus stirring out happy emotions. The author’s choice of words stirs up concerns and fears to the readers in the middle of the article. “The gap between the time spent inside and outside is widening…if we don’t, we will never raise…” this helps create awareness of what readers are a parent should be aware and take action to avoid regrets. In climate change article, David creates an appeal of fear by stating that global warming is real and has negative effects. “…global warming is real…it is too late to stop it now, but we can lessen the severity and the impacts.” The rhetoric question on the title of the third article, are necessary plastic intrigues the reader and makes their minds full of curiosity (Grethlein,