Columbine Motives

Burke argues that each person who looks at a certain way using this pentad will have a different way of looking at it. For example when people look at the Columbine shootings, you can rarely find articles that are similar to each other. Why is that? We were created with our own mind. Not one of us has lived identical lives to anyone else. People

the music and they don’t go off and shoot up the school. “People just blame the killings on movies and video games because they just want somebody to pay for what has happened.” After he makes these statements he starts to put his blame on the situation. The blame from the author is placed on the parents and the community. He argues that the parents should have been there for the kids more, and the community didn’t treat the boys with respect. “What happened weren’t all the kids fault and the things they do. I think that they shouldn’t blame what has happened because I think it is the parents fault.” He concludes his argument with this “I think that this tragic massacre at Columbine H.S would be avoided if the parents and the community didn’t see the two boys as an outcast.” The main ratio the author focuses on is act/purpose. He talks about the events than gives us what he thinks the purpose is. Another thing this author does is shift the scene. Instead of the school being the scene he directs the scene to the house of the killers.

My next article came from an adult who has a different view on this event. It is entitled “The Legacy of Columbine” He does a great job in tying in how it was when he was a child growing up. He touches on the fact that it wasn’t a big deal if they accidentally left their rifles in their trucks coming back from a weekend of hunting. Instead of just using the Columbine incident, he uses it as a stepping stone to other

incidents that have happened after the Columbine shootings. Snitches are the best way to prevent shootings like this he believes. “That’s because in more than 75% of school-violence incidents, the attacker had

Wow what an article that a Denver newspaper wrote. It wasn’t your ordinary article. It did a lot of research on the people who were closest to the incident. It gave run downs on they day of the horrific shootings. From a student who had classes with the killers, police

The first article I will elaborate on is called “Reflections of the Columbine H.S massacre” The author, a teen writing to a local newspaper gives a brief overv

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