Honor Killings in Turkey

How does your character justify his/her actions in the story? How does your character know what they know? In order to support your claim, please use an image (photograph, video clip, paiting) or a piece of writing (literature, textbook, poem) for each way of knowing.

Molly Moore wrote the article titled "Honor Killings in Turkey." Perception, language, reason, and emotion all play are important as to why she wrote this article.

It is evident in this article that Molly Moore is biased against honor killings. One reason why could be her western religious background. Therefore this would impact her view of honor killings as wrong. The image that I found regarding why she may have this perception is a picture of the ten commandments. One of the ten commandments reads "thou shalt not kill." This could possibly reflect her religious beliefs that killing under any circumstances is in fact wrong. Molly Moore uses strong emotive language throughout the article. For example, she uses the phrase "blood soaked." Her emotion is apparent throughout the article through the emotive language, which has a negative connotation. If Molly Moore was not biased against honor killings, then she probably would have chosen different words to describe the situation. Lastly Molly Moore could have had many different reasons for writing the article. One could be that she is writing it for money, since she works for the Washington Post. Journalism is her job, so she knows that she must sell newspapers. Therefore, she could have chosen to use the title "Honor Killings in Turkey" to grab Americans' attention. Another reason for Molly choosing to write the article could be the fact that she wants to get her viewpoint across that honor killings are wrong. She may be trying to address this problem. Most likely though, I think that this article only reflects her beliefs to a lesser extent, since her other journalistic endeavours listed on the Washington Post's website are not as in depth as this article.