9. Lives Lost, Poor Souls

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/16/world/asia/young-afghan-lives-lost-in-the-fog-of-war.html?_r=1&hp

           Rod Nordland starts out his article with a captivating sad and melancholic title: "Young Afghan Lives, Lost in the Fog of War." The article is accompanies a picture with a mother and three children with sad expressions across their innocent faces. He starts his article with an example of the routine of Abdul Farhad who works in a small office in Kabul and looks out the window to the crowded streets of Afghanistan. Nordland then proceeds to talk about Khorshid and Parwana, both young girls with big dreams, and Eesa, Nawal, Eylas, and Mohammed. As Farhad looks out the window, he sees a stranger with a knapsack who comes closer to the children. The children surround the knapsack because they were curious. The knapsack then explodes and Farhad survives but the children do not. It was a suicide bombing, the 55th in Afghanistan in 2012.
            Rod Nordland uses exemplification as his predominant device in his article. His purpose is to inform the reader about suicide bombings and political and military war which are responsible for the death of thousands of young Afghan kids. As an example, he uses a real life example of a man who looks out the window and sees a bomb exploding and wounding or killing hundreds of people, mostly young kids The author uses some statistical facts of the bomb occurences in Afghanistan and some political and military facts about the situation. He tries to sympathize with the reader to truly feel sorry for the lives of innocent children who lose their lives in the midst of ridiculous and immature fighting.