2/1/2018 "Schizophrenic Slenderman stabber, 15, weeps as she is sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution for stabbing her 12-year-old friend 19 times after a sleepover"Read NowAUTHOR This article is written by Jennifer Smith, who has been a news reporter for Daily Mail for over a two years. While attending the University of Edinburgh, Smith was working as a features desk assistant for The Telegraph for four months. After graduating in 2013, Jennifer became a news reporter for the Evening Standard from March of 2014 to June of 2014. She immediately went to South West New Service after her job at the Evening Standard and became a news reporter there for four months. Smith's job at the Daily Mail started in September of 2015 in which she was the show business reporter/assistant show business editor. A year later, in November of 2016, she became a news reporter. Jennifer Smith now lives in New York City pursuing her career. ABOUT THE ARTICLE The purpose of this article from Jennifer, was to update on the "Slenderman killing case". After 3 years from the attempt of murder and a year after the partner in crime got sentenced, Morgan Geyser got sentenced to 40 years in a mental institute. Morgan Geyser was the main criminal in the attempt to kill Payton Leutner, she had said the Slenderman, a fictional character off a game, had convinced her that she had to kill one of her best friends to save her own family. Geyser then convinced Anissa Weier that she had to help kill Payton or Anissa's family will also suffer. The case has been going on for 3 years, last year, however, Anissa got sentenced to 25 years in a mental institute. Both Morgan and Anissa were diagnosed with schizophrenia, but Morgan having a more extreme case. The article was written to give people who had been following the case or heard about the case a, hopefully, last update about it.
While reading the article, Kayla used a combination of an earnest, a didactic, and a reverent tone which allowed the reader how amazing the Salchert family is in what they doing. The earnest tone comes out when Brantley says things like, "Though it may seem like constant heartbreak to love children who are eventually going to die, caring for them has given Cori the opportunity to heal from her own personal pain." it shows that the family is being sincere in what they are doing. That statement makes the reader realize that the family is not for the publicity but for the love of it. Didactic helps the reader understand why and what the Cori, the mother, and her family are doing. One example of this is when Kayla says, "When Cori was four years old, her infant sister named Aime contracted spinal meningitis, causing brain damage that left her blind and suffering from seizures. When the family was no longer able to care for her, Aime was sent to a home for disabled children at five years old. At 11-years-old she wandered outside through an unlocked door and drowned in a pond.", which helps explain why the family does what they do. The author seems to have so much respect for the Salchert family for what they do. That can be shown when Kayla Brantley says, "[Cori] decided that no disabled child should live without a family and said that the heartbreak she experienced early on gave her strength to love these sick kids." . Ethos is a huge appeal in the article as well as pathos. In the article Jennifer credits certain people in the case including the judge and doctors who helped finalize the horrific situation that took place 3 years ago; " 'She is an emphatic kind, compassionate and bright young woman who is very remorseful about what has taken place' psychiatrist Kenneth Robbins told the court.", "They were called on by the defense team who pleaded with Judge Micheal Bohren not to keep [Morgan] in an institution.", both quotes are given credit to those people as well as the article so that the readers are insured that they are reading a good article that is credible. Pathos can be found when Jennifer recalls what Morgan and Anissa's mother had said about their daughters before all this happened as well as the progress that Morgan has had from her mental health, which the defense tried to use to get her out of an institution. "On Wednesday, [Morgan's] mother and Anissa's mother both repeated their earlier claims that there were no warning signs that either of their daughters was violent ... Morgan and Payton were friends, according to Morgan's mother, and acted like 'typical' tweens. 'They [Morgan and Payton] would sit up in Morgan's room and they would do each other's nails and they would laugh, and make a mess. They were just typical girls', Angie Geyser told ABC ... 'I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I never would have imagined that my daughter was capable of hurting another person,' [Angie] said. By putting that readers can feel what it would be like if that were their daughter and are reminded that it could happen to anyone. When talking about the progress of Morgan's mental health, the reader can feel the pain the Morgan must of felt going that far and doing that good to getting better all to go back and keep doing it for 40 years. "[Kenneth Robbins] said that there had been a 'dramatic turnaround' since [Morgan] was arrested ...".
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