Tim Collins....Straight from the Heart

I think that Tim Collins did an amazing job in describing Marie Fatayi-Williams’ speech in “Straight from the Heart”.  Mr. Collins makes the reader feel like they are standing in the crowd during the actual speech about the death of her son. He paints the picture of the red double-decker bus that involved in the bombing in the city of London.  Tim describes Marie’s words to “have fed such an acute hunger for explanation, have slaked such a thirst (hunger & thirst are related words) for expression of the sheer horror of Thursday’s events.”  The examples “orators, statesmen and playwrights, of Shakespeare, Churchill, or Lincoln” are superordinates used to describe how great her speech was.  Mr. Collins gives the visual of Marie holding her son’s picture as her emotions of despair; hopelessness and the longing to be with her son makes the reader feel her heartache uses pathos.  Since Mr. Collins relates and shares the emotions of being a writer gives him creditably (ethos).  At the end of Tim Collins analysis of “Straight from the Heart”, the reader has heartache for Marie’s loss but also the feeling of inspiration due to the fact that she could stand up in front of a crowd and give such a courageous speech. Tim Collins' analysis is just breathtaking.