"WOMAN WHO SHOT HUSBAND 'SUFFERED'"is about an Oshawa woman, who in 1995 shot her husband, wants support payments from him. She shot him in the face, went to jail for 2 years and is now receiving social assistance. Under Canada’s Divorce Act, a court cannot consider the misconduct of a spouse when ruling on entitlement to support. The woman is being made fun of. Because the word suffered is in quotes the reader is to assume that she really did not suffer because her husband was the person who got shot. Throughout the article it gives specific details about what happened, "David, who still has a bullet lodged in his spine, also had to have plastic surgery to reconstruct his face." This uses ETHOS to make the man the victim. The article compares how much money he made before and after the shooting and how the woman wants to take some of the little money he has. The make her look like she is a greedy selfish person. They only make one reference that the man cheated on her and that is why she shot him. They don’t even use the word cheated they say "estranged husband" they make it look ambiguous. They comment on how the woman "dabbed her eyes with Kleenex" when her lawyer talked about both her and her husband suffering. This article is using ETHOS again to say that readers should not sympathize with her by saying that she is not the victim in this case. It would be relevant information if there were a history of abuse in their relationship because that would further explain why she would shoot him. It would also make logical sense, LOGOS to put more information of their relationship in general for example how long was the man cheating on her and how she found out. All of this information would no longer make the man look like an innocent victim and therefore was probably not included for that reason.

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