3. Wanting to Kill

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/05/opinion/sunday/wanting-to-kill.html?hp


       This article, written by Matthew Parker, is about love and hate and faith. The writer is telling a personal story about his brother's death and how that death impacted his life. Parker starts off with a beginning that gets the reader intrigued to know if the person who died was really his brother and what happens later in the story. Then he talks about how his whole thoughts and how he viewed everything changed and now his life when to a whole different path. He uses words like "junkie" and "petty thief" to describe himself in that period of time, and by that language readers can fully comprehend the dark period he was in. Later on in his life, the writer talks about how a certain events changed his whole life. When sentenced to two years in the same prison that his brother's killer was, an administrator told him that he was warned not to put him in the same place as him. But as time passed, the writer started thinking at the possibility of running in to the guy who killed his brother and who he would react to that. As he thought about that he realized that it wasn't in him to kill some one and if he were to actually kill the guy, his life would end.

        Matthew Parker finishes the article saying that that whole experience changed his whole way of seeing things and his plans for life. He also says that things don't change that quickly, even though he changed his ideas at that time, it took ten more years to actually get his life back on track. Parker's main reason for writing this is to illustrate with his own personal experience that there is hope for everything and everyone. He talks about how point of views can change and how a person's whole life can change as well by just a little event.