1. The essay it’s called “I Am Adan Lanza’s Mother” because the author has problem with her 13-old son, her son is aggressive and she goes though the same problems as Lanza’s mother has went through. She compares herself with Adam’s mother history, she is scared that one day she might be killed by her son in a cold blood as Adam has done with his mother. The purpose of this article is that, there are so many mothers who go through pains, depressions and the worst and scare thing being killed by their own child.
2. Liza Long claims “I am sharing this story because I am Adam Lanza’s mother,” she wrote. “I am Dylan Klebold’s and Eric Harris’s mother. I am James Holmes’s mother. I am Jared Loughner’s mother. I am Seung-Hui Cho’s mother. And these boys—and their mothers—need help. In the wake of another horrific national tragedy, it’s easy to talk about guns. But it’s time to talk about mental illness.”
3. Long uses pathos appeals in other words an emotional appeal. Liza Long states “the only time I felt safe and I felt my other children were safe was when my son was either in the hospital or in jail”. In the other hand, she knows that he is…show more content… In the paragraph thirty Long makes a logical appeal.Acording to Liza long “I don’t believe my son belongs in jail. The chaotic environment exacerbates Michael’s sensitivity to sensory stimuli and doesn’t deal with the underlying pathology. But it seems like the United States is using prison as the solution of choice for mentally ill people. According to Human Rights Watch, the number of mentally ill inmates in U.S. prisons quadrupled from 2000 to 2006, and it continues to rise -- in fact, the rate of inmate mental illness is five times greater (56 percent) than in the non-incarcerated population. With state-run treatment centers and hospitals shuttered, prison is now the last resort for the mentally ill -- Rikers Island, the LA County Jail and Cook County Jail in Illinois housed the nation’s largest treatment centers in 2011.
