It is safe to say that Adnan Syed was treated unfairly on his first trial and deserves a second chance. After analyzing all of the evidence brought to light by Koenig, it seems that Serial shifted from a narrative perspective to an argumentative perspective. Koenig struck listeners with evidence from both sides of the story while continuing to keep the reader guessing. She also likes to shift her view point when Adnan looks guilty, or when he looks innocent. Depending on how the investigation is going, Koenig always seems to find questions and holes in the story that just don’t add up, leading to the conclusion that Adnan deserves a new trial. To start off, Koenig definitely argued many different factors which lead the audience to develop …show more content…
Koenig constantly throws out new questions, disbelief, and even her opinion to make the audience lean a certain way over the other. For example, Koenig believes that Hae couldn’t have been dead by 2:36 because there would have had to been no room for error, everything would’ve had to go as quick as possible (Ep. 5: Route Talk). Even though it’s possible, Koenig still doesn’t believe that it likely happened, making the audience follow whatever Koenig may think. Another example is how she promotes disbelief to the audience, when she makes Adnan look bad for not calling Hae around the time she went missing. Her point is that if they were such good friends, then normally he would’ve called her or paged her, and in this case he didn’t. Adnan explained that he’s not just sitting there thinking about it, all of Hae’s friends and him talked about it daily (Ep. 6: The Case Against Adnan Syed). This is another example of playing with the audience, by appealing to their emotions by making Adnan seem innocent one episode, but then making him seem guilty the next. It really engages the audience and makes them form their own opinion on Adnan, but possibly agreeing with Koenig’s ideas as …show more content…
The tone is shifted a countless number of times throughout the podcast. Her attitude shifts when she finds out more about the case, sometimes making Adnan seem completely innocent and didn’t do anything wrong, to making Adnan look guilty and someone who can be dangerous. Then the way she describes the mood of the story by giving us the basic atmosphere also shifts. She can make the audience feel very shady about Adnan’s case, but then other times it can sound like Adnan is innocent. Not only creating mood around Adnan, but the overall area where this all took place. For example, when she gives the details and location of Leakin Park, she really describes it as a shady place where very little people may go, and if they do it’s to bury bodies. This gives the audience a feeling that may make them lean a certain way towards the case, which is why the narrative part of this case makes it so important. Sometimes in non-fiction stories like this can be easy to pinpoint if he really did it or not, but with Koenig’s narrative it can be quite