The Southland

"The Southland" was all about the south and how it is much more impressive than the north. The south has the battlefields and how when he is there he feels as if all that life had been wasted. The south never fully recovered from the defeat against the north. It is saying that if you are from the north there is no way that anyone would be able to survive long with all the manners, customs, and landscape that are all different from the north. Miller shows ethos by giving examples that he has personally experienced. He shows pathos by saying that when he stood on the battlefields that he only saw waste of many lives, and how, "The south is still an open, gaping wound." He demonstrates logos by stating that the all the inventions, explorations, and discoveries is a great contribution to human society.