A Critical Analysis Of Aaron Hernandez

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Throughout my entire life, I have been a fan of playing and watching football. Growing up I remember when my family and me would get together every Sunday to watch football. During those times, I often do remember the super bowl game between the New England Patriots and New York Giants. From that instance, I was a fan of the Patriots. However one day my perspective changed about a certain player that I was a huge fan of, and that’s Patriots tight end Aaron Hernandez. Aaron was an extremely talented player who was a key component of the Patriots success in recent years who was considered to have be a good citizen as well. However his current criminal case tends to leave me a bit threatened about the situation. With the use of various articles …show more content…

However, they both use different aspects of trying to provide the upmost understanding of the murder case and to allow the audience to get a better perspective on whether the audience thinks Hernandez is innocent or guilty. However, unlike article one and two the third article, “Aaron Hernandez maintains his swagger in court” by Susan Candiotti portrays Hernandez as someone who hasn’t committed a crime. This article expresses Hernandez’s attitude as “a confident defendant who seems to show he has not committed the murder of Lloyd, seeming very at ease”(Candiotti 2015). The article mainly focuses on the jury trial on Hernandez of murder Odin Lloyd and the atmosphere of the trial and reactions from …show more content…

Normally when you read something similar to these articles, it forces the audience to place a sense of judgment that could be influential on their intake of the content. The first and second article portrays the view of Aaron Hernandez as neutral despite the evidence against him. The author presents the information in such a logos manner that overtakes your judgment on Hernandez. For example, in the first article it states claims from the prosecutor that, “Lloyd was last seen with Hernandez and Hernandez’s two associates, Carlos Ortiz and Ernest Wallace, around 2:30 a.m. in a rented silver Nissan where surveillance videos from security cameras at an industrial park showed an Altima heading toward a secluded area at 3:22a.m.”(Candiotti, Dolan, Ferrigno and Rozsa 2014). It was also told that between the times of 3:23 and 3:27 a.m. a few workers reported a sound of gunshots. The prosecution also presented a camera showing an Altima pulling into Hernandez’s driveway between 3:23 and 3:27 a.m. where three people got out of the car, and Lloyd not being one of them.”(Candiotti, Dolan, Ferrigno and Rozsa 2014). The use of evidence shows the actions of Hernandez concluding the use of logos manner. The author uses the pathos manner to provide the remarks by the defense as it

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