Ryan Hall
The border patrol state
1. The author seems to be of Latin American. We can tell this because she’s along with her
friend who is being stopped by border patrol and she describes how border patrol often
does this
2. What made her motivated to write this is to bring attention and awareness to the problem
of the border patrol.
3. The audience I think would be anyone who is Latin American who is travelling through
the south to tell them what goes on around the south.
4. She’s using a good amount of pathos to touch her audience and show her audience the
