Read the letter below. Then, answer the questions for some writing and logic practice.
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Dear Mr Python
I attended your movie the Life of Brian and must write to say Shame On You. This scandalous satire on the christian religion is heretical, now I’m sure you were reared to be a good christian boy but you have fallen in with a bad breed whom are leading you down a contemptible path, you are losing your soul to comedy and I for one think there’s enough laughter in the world, as I told Mrs. Plimpton just yesterday while she was feeding the English sparrows. She does this so neatly. Encircling muffin and bread crumbs around her statue of St. Francis of Assisi for the English sparrows which are in danger of extinction, now that might make a good movie and you could slip in a few jokes if you must.
But in my opinion comedy is ruining our nation and undermining our national character. We are not joking people but people who get things done using cold logic. Consier what would have happened in world war2 if Churchill at Yalta had made jokes about Stalin’s moustache or Roosevelts gamey leg. We might be speaking that ugly guttural language and writing nouns with 20 letters! Did you ever think about the consequences of comedy for the sake of comedy? We are a people of the “stiff upper lip” and we didn’t get that by laughing but by exercising sharp judgments of other nations inferiority and we are certainly not entertained by scurrilous attacks on a religion that gave us Gothic Cathedrals, the Cruscades, the inquisition, and bans on birth control.
With warmest regards,
Mrs. Evelyn Mott of Hampstead
Help Mrs. Mott with Her Letter
This letter has plenty of mistakes in grammar, punctuation, and spelling. It also has major logic problems. Can you identify them?
1. What is Mrs. Mott’s main argument?
2. What examples does Mrs. Mott use to support her position?
3. What examples would you use to support Mrs. Mott’s position?
