Question: Why do you think Sink chooses to open her article the way she does? What effect does the opening have on you as the reader?
Sink begins her article with references to two underage college students who both "died of alcohol poisoning an hour's length away from each other". I think she does this obviously to catch the reader's attention, which of course it does. Death as an opening will always shock the reader into wanting more, and makes the article overall more interesting. This caught my attention mostly because it was two students my age, in the same part of my life as I am. This is most shocking for me because it puts me in the position to picture what it'd be like if that had happened to me. I've barely started to live and it would be awful for it to be over, just like that, over some alcohol and peer pressure.
