Mini essay:

Oxford Street reopens after fatal stabbing

The article is about a 18-year old boy who got stabbed to death and another boy who got stabbed in the leg at Oxford Street, during Boxing Day. It’s an article from Gaudian.co.uk and the journal¬ist Alexandra Topping wrote it. Boxing day is the 26th of December, so just after Christ¬mas. In Great Britain it’s at shopping day, there’s discount in all most every store. There are so many people in the big mall and some people even very come before to stores opens just to be one of the first the get the good prices. Often people are getting hurt and sometimes even killed, as told in the arti¬cle. The receivers of this news article is someone who wants very brief to now about what happened at the crime .The intention with this article is to inform and scare the Boxing Day shoppers, how violent this big sale can turn out to be. She also wants to persuade us that Boxing Day can be very dangerous and maybe is not the best idea, to bring children, or even yourself. The journalist uses logos in the text, with all the examples of previ-ous accidents at the Boxing Day, for example:” It’s not the first stabbing on Oxford Street. In May 2008, Steven Bigby, of Hachney, east London was killed in daylight outside a McDonald’s restaurant in Oxford Street”. I don’t think this article is reliable; yes there are a lot of state-ments, from the police, for example:” A number of weapons have been recovered from the scene. Whether I’ve got the murder weapon I don’t know”. But the article is missing pictures, some more information about who did it and why. After reading this article, I think that this fatal stabbing had something to do with the Boxing Day and all the fact that people will do so much for at good price. Therefore I perspective the article to the poem: “Please don’t take my Air Jor¬dan’s”. Because it’s about the same, he kills another person for some shoes, in the poem, and the murderer does properly the same in the article.

Teenager is stabbed to death at the sales- Horror in London’s Oxford Street

This article is also about the 2 boys who got stabbed In London. It’s published from “The Sun” news. Writer’s intention with this text is, to inform us about the two crimes and scare people to not go there again next year. The receiver of the article is everyone who want’s to know all about what happened, compered to the other one, where the whole episode is descripted very brief. This article is way more detailed and reliable, about the two crimes; there are a lot of pictures, two were you can see the victim of the 2th stabbing and the police, one picture of a handcuffed suspect, another one of all the people there attended to the Boxing Day at Oxford Street and a little map, where you can see exactly where the fatal stabbings took place and when. The article also inform us about why the stabbing happened, there are statements from the police and others who watched the crime. The journal¬ist use pathos a lot in the article, for example:” They were trying to bring him back to life and there was a friend holding his hand. When they told his friend he wasn’t going to make it, he just dropped the hand and started screaming”. She wants us to fell sorry for the dead boy and his friend. Again I will perspective this text to the poem, we’ve reed in class:” Please don’t take my Air Jordan’s”. Because after reading the text I get an impression that this happened because of a fight between two bangs, but since it took place in this store I also think at had to do with something materialistic.