http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/07/the-massacre-in-aurora-can-you-blame-the-movies.html
The writer and critic at The New Yorker since 1998 David Denby writes an article on July 20th about wether people should or shouldn't blame the movie “Dark Knight Rises” for the massacre in Aurora. In his introduction he starts by showing how the massacre has happened before and could have happened in any other place where a crowd gathers. He goes on to talk about how many of those who have a predisposition to kill, usually get it from their past or their childhood, movies can be a source for them to act. Throughout the rest of the article David talks about how the violence in movies and the physical acts are "noble", but some people don't know how to separate the reality and the fictionest part of the movie.
David's purpose in this article was to inform his audience that movies don't change people. What the murderer was trying to give the audience was the reality of violence. He states that by saying "The grosser the outrages, the greater the fun. Surviving the movie becomes a kind of rite of passage", also when he says, that while talking to some friends about "The Dark Knight" and how the movie had so many cruelty, they claimed that the perverse cruelty was what they thought was "cool". He ends his article by stating that the man was crazy, but he was giving the audience what they wanted "You want violence as spectacle, I'll give it to you". You can't blame the movie for the actions of a lunatic.
-"The writer and critic at The New Yorker since 1998 David Denby writes an article on July 20th"
ReplyDelete*Should be David Denby, author and critic for The New Yorker, wrote an article..."
* Don't need to indclude the date of the article
-Never refer to the author by his/her first name, after you've stated his full name, David Denby, you can refer to him as Denby after that. This rule applies to all of your writing assignments in the future.
-Puncutation goes inside the quotation
-You need to include more information about the devices/tone/language of the article.
-This event made me so sad! What a horrible tragedy ):
on the punctuation after the quotation part, even if the whole sentence isn't the quotation do i still put it after the ""???
ReplyDeleteOKKK, Thanks :)
If the quotation is a complete sentence you need to include the period inside the quotation mark. For example,
ReplyDelete"The cat walked down the street."
If it's a phrase and not a complete sentence, then you need to put a comma_
"The cat walked," said the source.
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