Lauren Zanetakos

1/26/17

Today was the second day of watching “Bowling for Columbine”. Before turning on the documentary Mr. Rivers had the class define tone, Juxtaposition, and Ethos.

Tone- author’s attitude about_____

Juxtaposition- for both points of an argument: counterclaim, contrasting (show opposites)

Ethos- credibility (appeal)

As we continued to watch the movie, Mr. Rivers instructed us to write down possible claims and evidence that the director presented. These were a few that I found.

·         You're not responsible if you have a gun

·         People think that guns is the answer to settling most problems- Brent pulled a gun on someone and got expelled for a year

·         DJ was number three on the suspect list due to the fact that he has an instruction manual on how to build a bomb and has admitted to have made a few.

Talked to James Nickels, one of the suspected Oklahoma Bombers, he said that Timothy McBay was a great decent guy. Timothy McBay was later executed for his participation in that domestic terrorist attack in Oklahoma City. Nickels also claimed that all the ingredients bomb ingredients found by the police on his “food” farm where strictly for farming use only. When speaking to ## he spoke of how the people need to over throw the government when it grows too radical. This same man clams that everyone has the right to bare arms but only in the sense of guns vs. nuclear weapons because in the words of James Nickels “you know there’s wackoes out there”. Nickel also sleeps with an 44 magnum under his pillow and showed Michel Moore the gun and cocked it, placing the loaded armed pistil to his temple. By Moore including this interview in this documentary he is making his argument stronger by showing how little Nickels’ bounders are when it comes to guns and protecting himself.