Tuesday, July 3, 2012
2. Farewell, TomKat!
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/29/farewell_tomkat/
On June 29th, the staff writer for The Salon Mary Elizabeth Williams writes about Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes´ divorce after six years of marriage. She introduces the subject and cause an impression in the reader through an analogy of what Tom and Katie´s love life once was: a fairytale. She procedes and narrates the story of how the couple first got together and the love felt back in those days. After reminiscing, the author announces the end of the love story and exposes interview fragments on the divorce. The analysis of these fragments and the whole situation is briefly made, and after giving the reader an inside view on the former couple´s feelings, Williams starts to wonder about the real reason for the divorce and gives a couple suggestions. She ends the article by saying goodbye to the lovely public affections demonstrated by them in the past few years.
Williams purpose on writing this article was to give her perspective on Tom Cruise and Katie Holme´s divorce and to bring the news to those who were not aware of their split up. This becomes evident as she writes about her personal feelings throughout the whole article, always stating her opinions after she mentions new information.Mary also helps the reader to understand the situation by using several different sources and citing many quotes from the lawyers, reps, and even the celebrities themselves.
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ReplyDelete-Interesting article, but... not really very scholarly.. Maybe a better idea for this topic would be an article exploring the scientology aspect behind the divorce. You can certainly write about celebrities, but it needs to have some academic value to it. Does that make sense? If you want to send me the article before if you're not sure I can check it out and get back to you (: