Authors, politicians, and others in positions of authority utilize rhetoric to control the minds of others via the use of both spoken and written words. Rhetoric is a persuasive art form in which metaphorical phrases are used to persuade an audience to alter their minds. If arguments are powerful enough, they can convince people to believe in concepts that are either genuine or helpful to society. Through rhetoric, authors can draw attention to issues that are sometimes ignored or are not clearly seen in society and uncover overlooked or hushed-up stories from the neglected layers of society. The essay I would like to draw attention to is Mike Ceaser’s “A Dark Window on Human Trafficking”. Mike Ceaser is a journalist whose area of interest is Latin American affairs. He is based in Colombia and Bogota and writes for different periodicals, such as The Chronicle of Higher Education, National Catholic Reporter, The Lancet, and many others. In “Dark Window on Human Trafficking,” Ceaser dives into the underground world of human trafficking. He concentrates on young girls’ traffic across South America and North America and its border regions. Human trafficking has become an acute worldwide problem recently and thrives in many areas of the world, regardless of the efforts of the world community to prevent it. In this essay, Ceaser utilized his rhetorical skills to dive into the dark world of human trafficking, which severely hits Latin America and the USA, through the usage of images and forms of different societal levels, which is one of the best approaches to describe this type of issue. Human trafficking is generally described as an act of recruiting, transporting, transferring, and receiving individuals for profit by force, fraud, or deception. This crime can affect men, women, and children of various ages and backgrounds. Sexual exploitation is the most frequent type of human trafficking. Sexual exploitation primarily affects young women and girls, and it has become one of the American continent’s most pressing security concerns. Human trafficking is one of the most complex and morally complicated tasks for journalists and editors since victims suffer grave risks when speaking with media and are traumatized, if not horrified. Nevertheless, it is a crucial and valuable field for journalists’ investigations, which sometimes can be more helpful than political and bureaucratical procedures, which can also be affected by bribery and outside pressure from the so-called powerbrokers. In his essay, Ceaser explores the world of human trafficking through the experience of two students, Tracy O’Dowd and Sergio Velarde, whose story becomes the backbone of the article. From the beginning, the author gives his first opinion on trafficking and prostitution through the words of Tracy O’Dowd – “Prostitution can’t be a choice that you make” (Ceaser 3). This became the opening statement and the fundamental narrative of the essay. Ceaser follows a top-bottom storyline, starting from the ‘peak of the iceberg’ – closing the nightclub because of the underage prostitution charges. There, the author met two students who assisted in the court procedures against the owners. They are in