In Nathalie Petrowski’s passage, “The Seven Minutes of Marc Lepine”, published in Effective Reading and Writing for Comm170 and beyond, Third Edition, the author empathize with Marc Lepine, and challenges the readers that Marc Lepine who is identified as an abuser, is in actuality a victim. Nathalie identifies Marc Lepine as a victim throughout this article although he is known as “Montreal’s mass murder”. The author does this by examining where and when did Marc’s life go wrong. Nathalie gives example of the devastating events that occurred in his life that could of cause this, such as being abused by his father, his parent’s divorce and dropping out of school. The author continues to sympathize with Marc, imagining the pain and suffering
