34. 'He was just relaxed': After attack, Boston Marathon bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev partied, went to gym

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime/dzhokhar-tsarnaev-partied-gym-days-bombing-article-1.1322828

In this article, Erik Ortiz informs the readers that a Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was living his normal life, while the police was trying hard to find out who bombed Boston. Tsarnaev and his brother had become the police's most wanted men, when they a police officer was shot at their hands. However, according to his friends, after two days after Boston bombing, he went to a party, and it was registered that he was at the gym, as well. Glosby, who lives a floor above Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, said he talked to the suspect one day after the bombing. Besides that, according to his classmates, he was a normal sophomore who enjoyed playing soccer, soccer video games, listening to hip-hop and smoking marujana. The only friend that had noticed something different from him was Emily Delnnocentis, who said that the suspect had come to an uninvited party at her house, and he took her cat upstairs. While his brother was killed during a shootout with the police, he was captured finally on Friday.

The purpose of this article is to inform the readers about the suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and how he acted normal one and two days after the Boston bombing. To do that, he uses a formal tone, but at the same time playful. This tone is seen through his usage irony on the first paragraph to describe Tsarnaev's actions.("He was hardly running scared" to describe that he was acting as if nothing had happened) Besides that, great percentage of his article is composed of quotes by the suspect's classmates or his friends, which adds credibility to his arguments (appeals to ethos). He chooses to use easy diction and gives explanation for nearly everything, which shows us that his audience was not professionals who know a lot about the case, but he wrote it to inform anyone about the case.