The Southland

"The Southland", written by Henry Miller, was written for people to see there is more than one way to look at the South. He sees the South as being able to raise again from what they were, "A new South is being born. The old South was ploughed under. But the ashes are still warm". He uses extrodinary imagery when he talks of the battle between the North and South, "I have stood on many battle fields...but when I stand beside the graves of the dead in our own South the horror of war assails me with desolating poignancy". Not only does it appear that he is for the South or possibly a southerner, but he questions why the war was even fought, and how the South is being posiened by the North. He talks of the North and South history and compares it to other nations parts of histoy, such as Rome and China. In the story Miller relies mostly on pathos for the imagery of the South and how he compares it, and ethos for how he relates the South to other nations through history .