Thursday, September 19, 2013

Metonymy - The Old Suits

The old suits are on the television once again on going on with discussing the countries problems. The old suit rises to the stand while fixing his blue striped tie and cuff linking his black jacket. As he stood barely tall enough to speak into the mike, he starts speaking with his aged voice. "Today our country faces a critical problem if left alone will lead to terrible consequences." With this the crowd sits in silence waiting and listening carefully to learn about the crisis. "Currently the country Syria is at midst of a civil war with in its country between their government and the people of Syria that do not agree with government."  "Our country must decide on whether to or not to take action in Syria." Cameras flashing, reporters asking questions the crowd starts talking as the old suit finishes his sentence. A question shouted from the crowd made by one of the paper presses. "Why are we always involving ourselves in other countries affairs?" The old suit argues back in his old wise voice. "If we do nothing not only will we let a country fall to ruin but also the innocents that maintain in Syria will take damage as well." In Syria their government resulted using chemical weapons on its own people. The old suit just keeps yapping off more issues that has happened in Syria to draw the crowds attention and to make them feel more sincere for the people of Syria. "So much has happened in Syria with America's involvement we can save lives and prevent further chaos." With this the old suit argues against all that think we should do nothing to help Syria and mind our own business. From writing this story i believe that involving our country to help Syria will make a difference. If nothing is done nothing is changed so doing nothing would just let the suffering to continue. As the old suit makes a point to his listeners a great debate begins of one side wanting to have take action in Syria and another wanting to sit on the side thinking that our involvement would only worsen the countries' problem. So i end this story with a question, "What do you think should be done?"

2 comments:

  1. David, nice job on your blog. I really liked you captured the person's details. For example, "black jacket, ages voice, striped tie..." Also you talk about the current events. It makes the reader think about what happening around us. And thinking about their opinions.

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  2. David, I like your approach to this blog. Your story telling is pretty vivid, and the fact that you focused on the controversy surrounding Syria is engaging; I'm also intrigued with how you include your own opinion and invite the reader in at the end. There are some sentence-level mistakes that could be fixed--some run-ons, mostly, and some missing or awkward wording that you would probably catch if you read this out loud. But otherwise, this is very solid.

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