This article is about a homeless man named Fleming who brightened many peoples' lives with just a smile and a compliment. He died and the Starbucks, which many believed that he called home, made a shrine for him in the purple chair where he sat every day. The people who placed items on the shrine talked about how much they meant to them and also how much they wished that they had appreciated him more while he was around.
The information in this article entails to journalism through the human aspect. This is a feel good article that makes people think. Even though many of the readers are not in the proximity of this Starbucks or even the story itself, the readers can really connect with this man and love him without knowing him. I loved this article so much.
My question is, what is the messege of this article? Is there a moral?
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I think your question is a very good one because when the article is done you are left wondering. I think it was written like that so that different people could take different meanings from it possibly.
ReplyDeleteI think it might be the sort of article where the reader, because of the human interest running its course throughout the story, actually is left with various conclusions he/she can draw. It's a warm story, and yet it's chilling. Can anyone, reader or source in the story itself, sleep comfortably?
ReplyDeleteIt is a very feel-good article and I really liked it too. I think the moral of it is whatever works best for the reader. The author left it open and so the reader could take from it whatever they felt worked best for them. In other words, they could apply what they wanted to their own lives in the way that they wanted.
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