Marilyn Manson - Columbine: Whose Fault Is It? by Cecilia Berndt Andersen https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u How would you analyze this text, if you had gotten it at the exam? en-us 2017-03-09 14:02:50 UTC 2026-03-18 10:34:38 UTC hello@padlet.com Gruppe 6 - Læst og giver den max gaaaaas (Piotr, Nicolas, Luna, Hele) https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u/wish/159209907 Presentation of the text:
Marilyn Manson
  • Band, metallic rock
  • Scary looks
  • The poster-boy of fear
  • Criticising religion, society in his music
The text
  • Begs the question: “Who is to blame for the Columbine shooting?” - media
  • Focusses on the ‘biased’ media coverage of tragic events
  • Murder equals entertainment
  • Media blames idols for teens’ mistakes and wrongdoings
  • How to use our freedom
  • Children are growing up with media - bad for them
  • He just has an opinion (and present it in a rebelish way) - is that a bad thing? 
  • He advocates diversity amongst teens


Theme:
  • Media's effect on people's minds
  • School shootings
  • Who’s to blame?  (TV or Music) - Icon’s effect
  • Religion



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Analysis - see Analysis of non-faction, from Angles:
  • Genre: An opinion piece - an editorial (his view on a subject of current interest)
  • Subject: Violence and guns in USA 
  • Sender: Marilyn Manson
  • Receiver: The American population 
  • Medium: This text is a one-way communication in which he brings forward his opinion
  • Context: He’s trying to “save his own ass” - The columbine shooting is not his fault, it’s medias
  • Rhetorical purpose - Why is it written?: To make people be critical for what they read and to persuade
  • In his arguments, he mainly uses pathos and a bit of logos
  • Ethos - by giving us confidence in him, because he knows a lot about former murderers
  • His headline is great, because it’s exactly what the whole text is about - (Columbine : Whose fault is it?)


Structure/composistion:

Style and language:
  • Informal language - he’s using words and expressions as (“Out of the blue”, bullshit, OK, “finger-pointing”) and so on
  • But he also use a lot of formal words, which make him sound clever, but not too clever, to be understood from teens - he’s not an unreachable authority
  • References : Jezus, Murderers, 

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]]> 2017-03-10 09:28:51 UTC https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u/wish/159209907 Gruppe 1(Emma, Camilia S, Lena & Frederik) https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u/wish/159210037 Presentation of the text:
May 28 1999. A month after Columbine
By Marilyn Manson
Titel: Columbine: Whose fault it it?
Article  - Persuade & Entertain.
Theme: Guns, violence, media.
Summary: The text is about, persuading us to feel and have the same meaning about shootings as Marilyn Manson.
Analysis: Article/Non fiction. Opinion piece.
Structure:
Style, Language:
* Pathos; because he tries to make us feel bad & sorry about gun violence.
* Logos: He use logos to back up his opinions. 
* Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?

Discussion: ]]> 2017-03-10 09:29:28 UTC https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u/wish/159210037 Gruppe 5 (Stine, Joachim og Pernille) https://padlet.com/ceci649k/v9zeek5sas2u/wish/159210201 Presentation:
- Columbine: Whose fault is it?
- Marilyn Manson
- May 28, 1999
Theme:
- Shootings
- Media
- Culture
"It is sad to think that the first few people on earth needed no books, movies, games or music to inspire cold-blooded murder."
Summary:


Analysis:
-The genre is an article
- interview

Structure/composition:

Style and language:
American - english
informal


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Discussion:

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