9/11: The View From the Midwest is focused more on the journalist’s experience rather than addressing a nation as a President. He talks about what he was doing the morning the planes crashed into the towers. He discusses the people around him and the emotions they were all going through: shock, concern, fear, etc. In Bush’s address to the nation, he speaks more politically. For example, he discusses what the government has done since the attack and what they plan to do in the future.
Bush adds some pathos into his speech just to give his audience something
to relate to, but he mainly uses logos. The View From the Midwest shows an extensive amount of pathos because the author is telling us his story in which we can relate to certain aspects of it rather than trying to feel some emotion from political talk.
Both Bush’s Address to the Nation and The View From the Midwest talk about the events of 9/11 and the effects it had on America, whether that be the nation’s security or just the people in in.