by: JV
Article from Time Magazine Critique
Title: Me, My Liberal Wife and What Happened When We Went to a Gun Range.
Author: Joel Stein
Title: Me, My Liberal Wife and What Happened When We Went to a Gun Range.
Author: Joel Stein
CRITIQUE
The article written by Mr. Joel is all about how her wife wanted to have her own gun and how she didn't like the presidency of trump. the author also talked about the whole experience of him and his wife in a gun range. based on my own understanding about why was it written by the author, is because he wants to show one of a many point of views about the current elected president. Specifically, a point of view of a women. He also wanted to show what a "fear" can do to a person. One of the major issues tackled in the article is about owning a gun and in the story, owning a gun to feel safe. Which shows how little the trust for the current presidential winner.
Another issue mentioned in the article was about Discrimination between Man and Women. In one part of the article, where the author stated how shocked he was that his wife can easily pass the securities and go to shooting range without background check while for him as a man, he has to go under a lot of procedures just to go in. Meanwhile for the wife, she actually experienced a discrimination by giving her a gun that she can't possibly handle and that somehow made her feel like they mocked her. This shows that discrimination is still a
rampant and an ongoing issue that can never be closed or done.
I realized, by reading the article of Mr. Joel that many people fears the government and that there are still a lot of people that thinks lowly of women. As for the article, it was written well and fits the narrative and descriptive style of the author. As a reader, the article shows a lot of view-points which i agree on. For example, the idea that women can protect themselves without the help of a man. Which shows or depicts a strong image of woman. It just somehow disappointed me in the end because the wife doesn't seem to be satisfied or happy about her first experience in a gun range with a guy instructor and when she told her husband that she wants to try again, but this time with a female instructor.
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