The world is full of tortured souls but only a fraction of them are recognized. Nathalie Patrowski examines the aftermath of when these people change the world. “ The Seven-Minute Life of Mark Lepine" dives into the possible factors that cause a troubled boy to turn around and kill as well as society’s need to forget memories of any awful event. She supports these ideas through the use of hypophora, hyperbole, and metaphor. Petrowski starts the essay with hypophora, asking if his clock started ticking “the first time his father beat him” or “when his parents got divorced” as a way to allow the reader to understand the many possibilities for Lepine’s actions. Petrowski then goes on to ask “why Marc and not Nadia, why Marc and not another?”
