Soapstone Analysis:
Speaker: Frank Bruni, a writer for the NY Times since 2011. He has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. He reflects on diverse topics such as: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family.
Occasion: Frank Bruni wrote his article, " Sex, Lies and Houston", on Nov. 7, 2015. On this blog, he explains how gay men has been portrayed as " sexual prowlers, sexual predators, their eyes lecherously trained on the young, the vulnerable, the recruit-able." This "Gay" issue has been going on for decades now, people started to resent people because of their sexuality. They refused to send their children to schools with gay men or maybe even being on teams with these people. They wanted no part of gay men.
Audience: This Article is geared towards parents, men in particular because some men refused to have gay men around their sons because they might influence them.
Purpose: Frank Bruni further explains to inform people on the current issues we face everyday. He further explains how he once experienced being "gay". Bruni, in his article, " Sex, Lies, and Houston", explain " This specter was invented by opponents of the law, who were fixated on just a part of it: its inclusion of transgender people among blacks, gays and other classes protected from being fired or denied access to public accommodations because of their very identities." He talked about how the residents in Houston voted against an anti-discrimination law.
Subject: Houston recently voted against an anti-discrimination law that did horrible things that did ungodly things.
Tone: Bruni writes in a critical tone. He exclaims how growing up, he walked far away from men because he didn't want to seem suspicious for liking the same race. He talked in a critical tone because of how people discriminated against gay people. he also expressed his feeling towards Huston voting on a law that was against anti-discrimination.
Speaker: Frank Bruni, a writer for the NY Times since 2011. He has been both a White House correspondent and the chief restaurant critic. He reflects on diverse topics such as: American politics, higher education, violence in football, gay rights and his own life as a gay man in a close-knit family.
Occasion: Frank Bruni wrote his article, " Sex, Lies and Houston", on Nov. 7, 2015. On this blog, he explains how gay men has been portrayed as " sexual prowlers, sexual predators, their eyes lecherously trained on the young, the vulnerable, the recruit-able." This "Gay" issue has been going on for decades now, people started to resent people because of their sexuality. They refused to send their children to schools with gay men or maybe even being on teams with these people. They wanted no part of gay men.
Audience: This Article is geared towards parents, men in particular because some men refused to have gay men around their sons because they might influence them.
Purpose: Frank Bruni further explains to inform people on the current issues we face everyday. He further explains how he once experienced being "gay". Bruni, in his article, " Sex, Lies, and Houston", explain " This specter was invented by opponents of the law, who were fixated on just a part of it: its inclusion of transgender people among blacks, gays and other classes protected from being fired or denied access to public accommodations because of their very identities." He talked about how the residents in Houston voted against an anti-discrimination law.
Subject: Houston recently voted against an anti-discrimination law that did horrible things that did ungodly things.
Tone: Bruni writes in a critical tone. He exclaims how growing up, he walked far away from men because he didn't want to seem suspicious for liking the same race. He talked in a critical tone because of how people discriminated against gay people. he also expressed his feeling towards Huston voting on a law that was against anti-discrimination.
Analysis of diction:
Frank Bruni's precise diction reflects what is being thought of by many people around the world. This is why is so talented. He expresses himself through writing by coming u with pro-founding words that interests readers. He expresses how e would be previewed as "I USED to be a child molester. Not in actuality. In the popular imagination. In public debate." He uses the words such as: child molester to explain how the world would imagine him, a boy who is a child molester for liking the same sex. He explains how "Their words were so common and feebly challenged in the 1960s and 1970s, when I grew up, that even in the 1980s, when I was in my 20s, I sometimes kept an extra few feet between me and boys. I refrained from the typical sort of ebullience and friendliness that an adult summons when introduced to an acquaintance’s kid for the first time." He exclaims how growing up, he had to walk at a distance from men or children because people would think that he was a molester.
Frank Bruni's precise diction reflects what is being thought of by many people around the world. This is why is so talented. He expresses himself through writing by coming u with pro-founding words that interests readers. He expresses how e would be previewed as "I USED to be a child molester. Not in actuality. In the popular imagination. In public debate." He uses the words such as: child molester to explain how the world would imagine him, a boy who is a child molester for liking the same sex. He explains how "Their words were so common and feebly challenged in the 1960s and 1970s, when I grew up, that even in the 1980s, when I was in my 20s, I sometimes kept an extra few feet between me and boys. I refrained from the typical sort of ebullience and friendliness that an adult summons when introduced to an acquaintance’s kid for the first time." He exclaims how growing up, he had to walk at a distance from men or children because people would think that he was a molester.