In the article, "THE AARON HERNANDEZ SUICIDE: A FOOTBALL BRAIN INJURY LINK", published by Max Kutner describes how former football player Aaron Hernandez's brain will be examined to tie in a brain disease correlated to numerous deaths related to suicide by other football players.
In Kutner's article, his diction could be described as formal and scholarly. Throughout his article, Kutner uses words like "chronic traumatic encephalopathy", "traceable", or "progressive degenerative condition" to show how serious and formal the topic was. It also shows how informative and knowledge that the author is about the suicide and brain injury from doing all the background research for Aaron Hernandez's incident. It doesn't seem that Kutner has an emotional attachment based on his formal diction, but it does show that he believes that brain injuries from foot and suicide are correlated. Kutner appeals to mostly logos and pathos within his article. In the article, Kutner uses mostly facts like when he claimed, "A 2001 Danish study of nearly 150,000 people, published in the Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery and Psyhiatry, also found a higher suicide rate among people with a traumatic brain injury." or " In a 2016 study of 40 retired National Football League (NFL) players, 43 percent showed evidence of traumatic brain injury." (Kutner 2017). These statistics area appeals to logos in that Kutner uses logic and staticits to futher back up his argument that brain injurt from football is the probable cause of Aaron Hernandez's suicide. Kutner also appeals to pathos when describing his death and the possible causes. This hits the readers from an emotional aspect and most likely to those who were fans of Hernandez's. Through the article, Kutner uses a censorious and somber tone dealing with Hernandez's tragic event. Kutner uses phrases like "...join the growing list of former professional football players afflicted by the brain disease—and the list of those who have died by suicide." and "... found that patients with a history of traumatic brain injury were nearly twice as likely to die by suicide than those without such an injury." These phrases explain how Kutner's tone is very serious because the suicide is a critical situation that could of been caused by his athletic profession according to past evidences and cases. This tone creates an emotional attachment from Kutner belief that this football injury could of been the reason for his suicide in the jail cell. Kutner's purpose in writing this article on Aaron Hernandez is to discuss the matter of why Hernandez committed suicide. The portion of Kutner's writing that speaks directly to his purpose because of how many statistics he uses through his whole article. Those statistics are evidence to back up the claim that his suicide is linked to football brain injuries. The overall goal is to definitely support Aaron Hernandez in his reasoning for committed suicide, and also inform about the football injuries that causes these certain actions within people and athletes. I believe Kurt's position on this topic is very credible and valued high because of his knowledge about the background of linkage between brain injuries and suicide. The argument Kutner claims is organized very well constructed through his uses of diction, tone and other rhetorical devices like appealing to logos. With his appeal to logos, he gives very detailed evidence of statistic and former brain studies of other football players that committed suicide as well as Hernandez. Kutner's argument is very solid in the fact of him using many statistic to make him both knowledgeable and credible about his stance of Hernandez's suicide and the reasons for the tragic event.
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