Lillian Guzman

Ms. Alcaraz, Period 6

Non Fiction Response: Death Penalty

1. Martin O'Malley wants to convince people to abolish the death penalty.

2. I can connect this with a book called "Monster" because they both say that prison systems are

racist.

3. The author's purpose is to persuade; I know because O'Malley has a call-to-action: "It is time

that we, as a nation, abolish the death penalty for good," (O'Malley).

4. The audience is people that believe in the death penalty because O'Malley's tone is persuasive,

which affects the text.

5. The most relevant details are statistics about race.

6. O'Malley uses logos:

•PART A•

* "The longer we continue to support this expensive and failed policy, the more we fall short of

our values as people," (O'Malley).

* "Reforming our criminal justice system to save and redeem more lives is not as simple as

changing just one thing..." (O'Malley).

* "It does not even save us money..." (O'Malley).

•PART B•

The author makes it clear that they're running for some type of office.

•PART C•

The theme is "Supporting lost causes leads to a waste in time and money".
8. It helped me understand the reasons to the 'con' side of the death penalty.

9. I might change the use of the word "death" for the word "murder" for more of a dramatic

impact.

10.

•OPTION 2•

The death penalty should be abolished. Having it wastes a lot of money. For example, the

author says, "It does not even save us money..." (O'Malley). O'Malley complains about how

expensive the death penalty is. Because the death penalty wastes money, it should be abolished.