The article that I chose to analyze is “After Sandy Hook, we’ll never be silent on guns again”, by Shannon Watts from CNN.
When I look at this article, I can easily find the target audience in this article. The target audience is American moms. Since Watts delivers the message that Moms have to be banding together to alter the American culture of gun violence in this article, the target audience can be defined as moms in the U.S. She also says that she decided to reach out to other American moms who felt the same way as she was. Through her explanation in the article, audiences are easily able to realize that the author picks American mothers as her target audience.
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The thesis of this article is that American moms must bond together to reduce the gun violence. The author uses Sandy Hook tragedy as an appeal to emotion, so that she can appeal to other moms. She uses Anecdote to explain how she became the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Since she mentions that more than 2 million children live in houses with unsecured guns as propaganda, she conveys the message that our children actually are not safe to other moms. She also uses metaphor because in the article, she mentions a political third rail. Third rail in this article is described as dangerous or untouchable.
The logical fallacies that I found are faulty cause and appealing to extremes. The reason for faulty cause is because in the article, author says, “because more than 2 million American children live in homes with unsecured guns, we have an opportunity to reduce unintentional shooting by children who get their hands on guns”. I think American children with unsecure guns at home may not be the reason why moms are able to reduce unintentional shooting. For appealing to extremes, author mentions in the last sentence, “Together, we can end gun violence”. The word, end, is kind of appealing to extremes in this
When I look at this article, I can easily find the target audience in this article. The target audience is American moms. Since Watts delivers the message that Moms have to be banding together to alter the American culture of gun violence in this article, the target audience can be defined as moms in the U.S. She also says that she decided to reach out to other American moms who felt the same way as she was. Through her explanation in the article, audiences are easily able to realize that the author picks American mothers as her target audience.
This article contains claims of fact, claims about the value, and claims about …show more content…
The thesis of this article is that American moms must bond together to reduce the gun violence. The author uses Sandy Hook tragedy as an appeal to emotion, so that she can appeal to other moms. She uses Anecdote to explain how she became the founder of Moms Demand Action for Gun Sense. Since she mentions that more than 2 million children live in houses with unsecured guns as propaganda, she conveys the message that our children actually are not safe to other moms. She also uses metaphor because in the article, she mentions a political third rail. Third rail in this article is described as dangerous or untouchable.
The logical fallacies that I found are faulty cause and appealing to extremes. The reason for faulty cause is because in the article, author says, “because more than 2 million American children live in homes with unsecured guns, we have an opportunity to reduce unintentional shooting by children who get their hands on guns”. I think American children with unsecure guns at home may not be the reason why moms are able to reduce unintentional shooting. For appealing to extremes, author mentions in the last sentence, “Together, we can end gun violence”. The word, end, is kind of appealing to extremes in this