Kroll and Mencken Articles

I find the Kroll article more persuasive. Its use of pathos has more of an impact than Mencken's weak attempt at logos. Mencken fails to use any hard facts that would tend to persuade the logos-minded, rendering his piece ineffective. Kroll, however, has mastered the use of emotion to persuade. He makes every effort to paint Harris in the light of a victim, and depict the families of the victims as cruel and heartless people. He effectively describes the whole scene as "indescribably ugly", and leaves the reader with a disturbed feeling that works much better than Mencken's attempt to persuade.