In Fergal Keane's essay “Letter to Daniel” the writer uses a lot of emotion in this wonderful letter that he wrote to his son. He uses so much elements of tone, voice, and author's craft and shows truthful, responsible, and ethical qualities to emphasize the author's purpose. He obviously loved his son very much to have wrote him such a beautiful letter to show him how much he loved him. This kind of communicates to the Rwanda genocide because the author has gone to Rwanda and has seen all the horrible things being done to those poor people. He does not want the same thing to happen to his child that is happening to other children around the world.
The main idea I think is that he doesn't want his son growing up in a world full of violence and conflict . He wants his son to be a good person in life and doesn't want his son to be the wrong person. He's afraid for his son because of all the things that are going on in the world at that time. He has gone all over the world and seen a lot of horrible things being done to all this children and now that he's got his own he doesn't what anything to happen to him. Now he understands the pain that the parents went through and I don't think that he wants to go though that pain himself.
I think that the author wants not his son to be a good and try to change the world but for everyone of his readers to be good people. His message to us is not to be horrible people but to be good to people give o e needy and try to help people that really need it. The sentence that really paints a picture in my mind would have to be "In a World of insecurity and ambition and ego, it's easy to be drawn in, to take changes with our lives, to believe that what we do and what people say about us is reason enough to gamble with death." That sentence is very true their are many of us out there that are very insecure about our self. We have so much ambition and ego that sometimes its not good and we get carried away with it and sometimes at the end we regretting what we did and we can't take things back.
We can say that he is truthful and responsible because the letter was put on BBC Radio and, was published on PBS News. I believe that he is being ethical, truthful, and responsible because of the emotion that and trust me no one can fake this kind of love in a letter. Keane uses logic and reasoning to prove his point when he uses things like "There is one last memory, of Rwanda, and the churchyard of the parish of Nyarubuye where, in a ransacked classroom, I found a mother and her three children huddled together where they'd been beaten to death. The children had died holding onto their mother, that instinct we all learn from birth and in one way or another cling to until we die." I thought this sentence was very sad and emotional.
So in conclusion like you see in Fergal Keane's essay "Letter to Daniel" you can very well tell that he spent so time and he really showed that he loved his son very much. I'm pretty sure that anyone who reads this letter will very well agree with me this dad love his son very much and was not afraid to show it. I think that we can all learn something from this, we have the power to change the world by one act of kindness at a time we can all be good people like he wants his son to be. This letter made me think twice about how thankful I am for everything I have and I don't have to worry about going though things like the people in Rwanda did. I honestly think we all have learned a very good lesson from this letter.