Double Killer Kill Harris Analysis
Would you feel empathetic towards a mentally unstable man? A man whose actions were a result of his life’s incomplete lessons?
This man was eventually ‘inhumanely’ executed: experienced by TV man Michael Tuck who watched the execution of ‘double killer’ Robert Harris.
Harris who ruthlessly blasted two innocent teenage boys: one shot four times in the back and the other shot to the head. For this crime, he was sentenced to death by the means of a gas chamber with cyanide gas.
Alan Hall creates a lot of emotion within the article. He refers to the perspective of my different peoples understandings as to what they saw happen. He is apparent about wanting us to comprehend the agony and torment that the ‘killer’ had come across during his trial, however Hall did …show more content…
Among thousands of anti-death campaigners who ‘urged mercy’ for Harris was Nobel peace prize winning nun-mother Teresa. Circumstances such as these evidently show us how these people are in need of assistance rather than elimination.
Hall uses different techniques such as emotive language, facts and options to provoke an emotional response.
In response to the article ‘I see a killer die’ the writer has used the word ‘’killer’ to dehumanise Harris’ rather than saying his name, blaming Harris for murdering the two 16 year olds to death. The verbs ‘’see’’ and ‘’die’’ are written in present tense to make us, the readers feel that we are there, witnessing this horrendous act take place.
Hall starts off with his headline by using emotive language. He uses the verbs ‘writhe and die’ to describe the death of Harris. The use of the ‘writhe’ to make the reader perceive an intense image of Harris wriggling and fidgeting while strapped to the chair, infers the ache and agony Harris felt before he died, just like his two teenager victims. The word ‘die’ is barely basic: involving no description just that he
This man was eventually ‘inhumanely’ executed: experienced by TV man Michael Tuck who watched the execution of ‘double killer’ Robert Harris.
Harris who ruthlessly blasted two innocent teenage boys: one shot four times in the back and the other shot to the head. For this crime, he was sentenced to death by the means of a gas chamber with cyanide gas.
Alan Hall creates a lot of emotion within the article. He refers to the perspective of my different peoples understandings as to what they saw happen. He is apparent about wanting us to comprehend the agony and torment that the ‘killer’ had come across during his trial, however Hall did …show more content…
Among thousands of anti-death campaigners who ‘urged mercy’ for Harris was Nobel peace prize winning nun-mother Teresa. Circumstances such as these evidently show us how these people are in need of assistance rather than elimination.
Hall uses different techniques such as emotive language, facts and options to provoke an emotional response.
In response to the article ‘I see a killer die’ the writer has used the word ‘’killer’ to dehumanise Harris’ rather than saying his name, blaming Harris for murdering the two 16 year olds to death. The verbs ‘’see’’ and ‘’die’’ are written in present tense to make us, the readers feel that we are there, witnessing this horrendous act take place.
Hall starts off with his headline by using emotive language. He uses the verbs ‘writhe and die’ to describe the death of Harris. The use of the ‘writhe’ to make the reader perceive an intense image of Harris wriggling and fidgeting while strapped to the chair, infers the ache and agony Harris felt before he died, just like his two teenager victims. The word ‘die’ is barely basic: involving no description just that he