In my opinion, Tom Collins did a great job analyzing Marie Fatayi-William's speech. He states in the first paragraph why the speech is being made and notes that Marie had an affect on the audience of that of a stateswoman. He finds the logos, pathos, and ethos in different parts of her speech. He also notes that Marie's speech was spontaneous, only 4 days after the bombing that her son was involved in. Collins also relates to Marie by his own experience of speaking with no plan, no notes, and basically, they both spoke from their hearts. He pulled specific examples from her speech and elaborated in his own words. I don't feel that Collins was biased in his opinion of Marie's speech, even though he has been in a violent area, terrorism is something that we can all relate to and should hope stops. He expresses her views and then explains what he felt about the speech.
Tom Collins, although I don't know much about him, seems to be an excellent writer. I hope that I can learn from this analysis and try to come close to what he has done. With such a major event happening in the bombing, I can only assume that he reached many different audiences with his analysis.
I feel also Tyler that he reached many different audiences and they probably had differrent views which I think he achieved by causing them to logically consider his writing. I too hope I can learn from this and use it in my future writing
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