Walter Lippman's Taking A Chance

“Taking a Chance,” a sarcastic and opinionated essay written by Walter Lippmann is strongly worded to portray a tone of frustration towards political writers, through first and second point of view Lippmann makes the failures political authors achieve through non aggressive and non opinionated views come to light and he discusses the lack of aggression needed in political writing. As it begins in first person point of view it takes a drastic change directed at the reader towards the end of the text. The writing is sprinkled with various advanced and colorful language. Even with the occasional advanced use of wording, “Taking a Chance” is rather easily read and in parts easily understood piece of writing. Hints of sarcasm and seriousness can be understood throughout the piece.
By the end of his writing Lippman abandons his sarcastic tone for seriousness. With his sarcasm Lippman drags the authors of political writing and the piece he read in particular. Lippman throws the author’s writing down from a clean piece of political work to a common-man’s collage of overused and possibly one sided words. Lippman’s tone seems to linger between sarcasm and seriousness through the bulk of his writing. Further towards the last paragraph it becomes more serious and by the last paragraph Lippman speaks with clear seriousness. Making his views on political writing unmistakably