The context of this article is the terrible shooting that happened in Sandy Hook Elementary School (Newtown, Connecticut) on Friday December 14th, 2012. Connecticut Shooting Victims' Stories Begin To Emerge describes the stories of the twenty-six victims, twenty of them children, including adults: Victoria Soto (teacher); Mary Sherlach (school psychologist); Lauren Gabrielle Rousseau (teacher); Anne Marie Murphy (teacher); Rachel Diavino (behavioral therapist); and Dawn Hochsprung (principal).
Connecticut Shooting Victims' Stories Begin To Emerge was published in news website The Huffington Post, a credible news source that has been on the internet since 2005. A liberal, left-wing newspaper, it can be somewhat skewed.
The author's purpose in writing this article was to inform people about a terrible event that happened on Friday, and I think he was able to accomplish just that. School and university shootings, however unfortunate, are not unheard of, and have been littering the news as early as the 1960s. However, the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting was one of the first shootings targeting such a young crowd, making it even more devastating. The intended audience was really just anyone who wanted to learn more about the shooting, especially since there were a lot of people curious about the event.
A rhetorical element used in this article is pathos. The author is able to convey the bitter sadness at the thought of the death of these good people through sentences such as, "It was the last outfit the redhead would ever fit out."
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