Riots are pitiful way to get your own opinion across to many, according to Katelyn Booth in All Riots Matter, especially when those riots do more harm than good within society. Participating in the act of calling out a majority group (rioters) by pointing out certain aspects of their actions as childish in order to prove in today’s divided society that rioting is not the answer to all of the world’s problems. Booth urges the world population to understand that riots make situation worse and show how “loving” the people rioting are. Sarcasm is used often in this essay as a tool to show how idiotic these “peacemakers” really are. The author points out, using sarcasm, that the rioters often have the mindset of “burning
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It is their way of saying how being loving and accepting of all others is the only way we can ever achieve peace. Yet, the author explains how “destroying their communities while yelling profanities” (Paragraph 6) is not loving and not accepting. Doing those actions only divide society even more than before and makes even harder to achieve the goal of peace. Every society wants to achieve some sort of middle ground, calmness, and to have to major divides like the ones we see today but when people continue these riots, society will never learn how to love one …show more content…
The phrase “if a person offends someone, they might wake up the next morning with leprosy” (Paragraph 3) is extremely over the edge and dramatic. It is describing how over the top people act when someone is offended by someone else’s words. They act as if they will wake the next morning with some deadly disease. Booth needs the audience to know that being offended is not going to ruin your life nor your day. People are rude and disrespectful all the time and if society can not learn to stand up for itself, words will be the death of
It is their way of saying how being loving and accepting of all others is the only way we can ever achieve peace. Yet, the author explains how “destroying their communities while yelling profanities” (Paragraph 6) is not loving and not accepting. Doing those actions only divide society even more than before and makes even harder to achieve the goal of peace. Every society wants to achieve some sort of middle ground, calmness, and to have to major divides like the ones we see today but when people continue these riots, society will never learn how to love one …show more content…
The phrase “if a person offends someone, they might wake up the next morning with leprosy” (Paragraph 3) is extremely over the edge and dramatic. It is describing how over the top people act when someone is offended by someone else’s words. They act as if they will wake the next morning with some deadly disease. Booth needs the audience to know that being offended is not going to ruin your life nor your day. People are rude and disrespectful all the time and if society can not learn to stand up for itself, words will be the death of