Book Vocabulary

3/26/2013

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Elude
  • (of an idea or fact) Fail to be grasped or remembered by (someone).
  • “The sea and sky have a particular skill of ELUDING good photographs.”  
  • Sometimes, the answers to Mrs. Barnes questions seem to elude me.
Escape
Leave
U
Depart
Evade



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Article Analysis

3/23/2013

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Wolf, Naomi. “Ending India’s Rape Culture”. Al Jazeera. January 1, 2013. Website address:http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2013/01/20131393027992335.html

This article is about Indians protesting against the government because the rate of rape is getting out of hand and the government is basically not doing anything to control it.They are also fed up with India’s blame-the-victim culture respective to rape and sexual crime. It also zeroes in on one specifically gruesome case of a young woman being raped and killed by 6 men on a public bus. 

The audience respective to this article are Americans and other people outside of India, to notify them of current events in India. I think the author proved gender obviously plays a big role in this issue. For example: “..government and police officials recently insisted that most rapists cannot be prosecuted in India, because, as one official put it, they are known to the women attacked. Other officials have publicly suggested that victims themselves are "asking for it" by their use of freedom of movement.” The author also conveyed the severity of this issue  through this article by her word choice. For example :virulence, outrage, vilification were used in place of simpler words to emphasize the rigidity of this issue. It is true that in most Asian and Middle Eastern women are viewed in an inferior manner to men. Kavita Krishnan,Secretary of the All India Progressive Women's Association, was quoted several times in this article because she is a key leader of some of the protests. I think the voice, that’s missing is a rape victim. That would have given a key aspect to the article and completed it.
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