C2.) The most outrageous recommendation miller made were when he says “people can be executed in places like Shea Stadium before immense paying audience”. I believed this statement was pretty ridiculous, until I continued to read and see the way he uses these recommendations to prove his point.
C3.) Miller makes the reader really sit and think about the idea of capital punishment. I think in some way he is like these people but more in a contradicting way. It seems he is against the criminal executions. However, his main purpose is to inform people that criminal executions should be viewable to the public and everyone should have an option, if they wants to watch. He even states “My proposal would lead us more quickly to boredom and away from our current gratifying excitement – and ultimately perhaps to a wiser use of alternating current. He says if it was up to him the way we do things and see entertainment is the opposite of what he sees and how he view entertainment.
P/A1.) I think he approaches it this way because his thesis is relatable to many things that’s actually going on in reality. The way he brings his ideas all together and the tone he uses strengths the essay. The way Miller describes everything brings a connection between his essay and his readers. His details helped me get a feel of how the whole process of the execution would really come off.
P/A2.) I think he intends for his audience to be amused in a weird way. For example, he compares executing criminals to entertainment and clearly for his statements not be taken literal. He really wants to show his point of view and what he believes should take place. Which is executing criminal should be privatized. Everyone even children should get to see this in person to entertain and even more to inform.
P/A3.) I think that Miller’s main purpose in the essay is to persuade his readers. If privatize executions was viewable by the public it could change people