What is the purpose of the appeal in this passage?
another, one of the finest in the grove, more than three
hundred feet high, was skinned alive to a height of one
hundred and sixteen feet from the ground and the bark
sent to london to show how fine and big that calaveras
tree was - as sensible a scheme as skinning our great
men would be to prove their greatness. this grand tree is
of course dead, a ghastly disfigured ruin, but it still
stands erect and holds forth its majestic arms as if alive
and saying, "forgive them; they know not what they do."
-"save the redwoods,"
john muir
o to prove that felling the great trees is wrong by
presenting reasons and evidence
o to evoke sympathy for the tree with striking imagery
and language
x to emphasize that the loggers are not responsible
for what they have done
o to establish muir as an expert on the subject of the
redwoods