32. Rape of 5-Year-Old Girl Sets Off New Furor in India

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/asia/reports-of-rape-of-5-year-old-in-india-set-off-furor.html?ref=world

In this article Gardiner Harris writes about the protest on Saturday due to the rape and torture of five years old girl. In the first paragraphs, he gives a description of what happened to the girl with details. After she was abused, she was taken to the public hospital and given fluids and antibiotics to fight blood infection. According to R. K. Bansal, medical superintendent of Swami Dayanand Hospital, there were injuries on her lips, cheeks, arms and anus areas. A suspect was a Rajan Bhagat, a recently married man, who lived in the same building as her and was tracked down with cellphone records. Later on, he lists other facts that led to this protest. It had happened even though the country's laws regarding sexual assaults had been made after a woman was gang raped and tortured. Anger against the authority grew when people started to realize that the police was not taking this case seriously and found out that they offered money so that the kid's parents would keep quiet about the case. To end the article, then, Harris describes the protest itself. Trough television, it was seen the police officers slapping some women in the protest. For this reason, two officers were suspended, and to calm the anger, the suspect was quickly arrested, which is something that does not happen normally in India. 

The purpose of this article is to inform the readers about the protest in India influenced by the rape and torture of a five year old girl, and also describe it. He uses easy dictions and explains everything clearly so that a person that does not have a clue about the incident might understand. Besides that, in informing and describing, he seems to want to show the readers how serious are the things he writes about in the article, especially by appealing to pathos. To do that, He appeals to authority such as B.K. Bansal who explains the rareness of these kind of situations . Also, he not only uses a formal, serious tone throughout the essay, but uses parallel syntax. In addition to that, Harris uses several different rhetoric elements such as euphemism (“into her private parts"),