Columbine_Motives

Columbine Motives Analysis of Motives “What is involved when we say what people are doing and why they are doing it'” Kenneth Burke in, “Grammar of Motives” offers us a way to analyze different people or events and why they did it. Through the idea of Pentad we can further analyze things to cover all aspects of it. Pentad includes five principle terms. They are: Act, Scene, Agent, Agency, and Purpose. We can use this to analyze motives behind certain events. The act is what event actually took place. The scene deals with the situation or place where the event occurred. The person or kind of person who performed the act is the agent. Agency is what means or instruments he used. And last but not least is the purpose. In this paper I will discuss different articles that deal with the Columbine scandal and the ways people view this incident through the use of Pentad. Burke argues that each person who looks at a certain way using this pentad will have a different way of looking at it. For example when people look at the Columbine shootings, you people, columbine, pentad, different, article, way, author, about, shootings, school, scene, event, blame, act, johnson, articles, analyze, things, motives, happened, doing, through, same, ratio, person, parents, mind, made, just, gives, day, burke, boys, another, after