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Obsidian Mekediak Tyler Bonnette RD 117 19 Dec 2022 Rhetorical Analysis of Sarah Koenig’s ‘Serial’ Adnan Syed was convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee February 25, 2000. Syed has claimed his innocence since he was arrested. Syed’s conviction was based on Jay Wilds’ testimony. Wilds claimed Syed had strangled Hae Min Lee, and convinced Wilds to help bury her body. Sarah Koenig’s initial purpose of creating the podcast ‘Serial’ and investigating the conviction of Adnan Syed for the murder of Hae Min Lee was to conclude if the state's case against Syed was flawed and in doing that, Koenig was successful.

Adnan Syed vs. Justice system Adnan Syed is a famous figure who is widely known for being the subject of the first serial season of the popular podcast ‘’Serial “. He was born in Baltimore and was serving a life sentence until his release in 2022 for a murder he was convicted for in 2000.During his trial for the murder of high school classmate Hae Min Lee, his then attorney represented him poorly,contributing multiple factors leading to his imprisonment. Since then, advocates for Syed believe he was wrongly accused of the crime. On January 13, 1999 The body of Hae min lee was found in Leakin Park by a worker there. The detectives’ Main suspect was the ex-boyfriend Adnan Syed, Based on the story of only one key witness, Jay, Adnan was dragged out of his home and put in handcuffs.

Additionally, McClain’s letters suggest that she was willing to lie for Adnan Syed. “I hope that you’re not guilty and I hope to death that you have nothing to do with it. If so I will try my best to help you account for some of your unwitnessed, unaccountable lost time” (McClain). In Serial, Sarah Koenig also did not fully evaluate other potential suspects. As she narrates the podcast, Koenig mainly focuses on proving Adnan’s innocence.

Adnan Syed was a 17-year-old high school student who got convicted for the murder of Hae Min Lee, who was his ex-girlfriend. Her body was found by a maintenance guy who stopped to go pee in a park far away from the high school they both had been at prior to the murder. The reason Adnan mostly got convicted was because of his ex-friend's story about that day. Jay. Jay says a story that switches every time he talks to the cops, and his story also doesn’t make complete sense (I'll get back

Jay Wilds, who was an asset to the burial of Hae Lee, claims that Adnan had bragged about choking Hae Lee and helped bury her. After the investigation looked at Adnan’s cell phone data, it shows that a call was made around the time of when Jay Wilds claims that they were burying the body. In the Recent Developments paper, written by Justin Ellis, he writes about how Adnan had actually failed to provide a crucial piece of evidence before the trial started. This evidence was a stab at the claim that Adnan was in the park at the time of the burial. It contained a letter from an alibi witness known as Asia McClain.

It’s difficult to recall the exact events that happened over 6 weeks ago without logs or the internet, and it’s even more stressful when one’s memory has their life on the line. It’s one thing to have misplaced something important, but for Adnan Syed his freedom relied on the memory of his whereabouts on a day in 1999 where his ex-girlfriend Hae Min Lee was murdered and he was number one on the suspect list. Adnan was arrested for first degree murder since he couldn’t remember exactly what he did on that day, because it was like any other day and he did not kill Hae despite having a direct connection to her. Adnan Syed is innocent of the murder of Hae Min Lee because he was falsely accused under the consequence that the evidence was barely

It also exemplifies the jurastic difference between the peaceful areas of the forest and the extreme woods in Alaska. One moment there can be a nice little open field and the next you cannot see ten feet without a tree getting in your way. From that the reader can easily foreshadow the events to come in Alex’s

Serial: Season One In season one of Sarah Koenig’s podcast, Serial, Koenig challenges the legitimacy of the Maryland justice system in the conviction of Adnan Syed. Jay Wilds is influential in the case of the murder of Hae Min Lee, and his testimony was the primary source for Adnan Syed’s conviction. Koenig examines corrupt interactions between the court and Jay Wilds. Jay delineated the main timeframe for the prosecution to use against Syed.

This was quite the battle for Adnan Syed, a young oriental male who was accused of murdering his long-time girlfriend in January of 1999. Hae-Min Lee, Adnan’s girlfriend, went missing in January and her body was found buried in a local park 3 weeks later. Adnan Syed is innocent of killing Hae-Min Lee because of three reasons: Cristina Gutierrez, Adnan’s lawyer, failed to put him in a position to win the trial, Jay is not an effective witness, and the window of time does not match up. Adnan is not at fault

On January 13th, 1999, a 17 year old girl named Hae Min Lee was manually strangled and murdered, and the convicted killer: her ex-boyfriend. Hae’s body was found a month later on February 9th. Over the past decade, the continuity of the case has been questioned, rejected, or accepted by hundreds of listeners to “Serial”, a podcast narrating and interpreting every piece of evidence the host, Sarah Koeing, could come across. Through her hours of looking through court records, interviews, and even meeting with the alleged murderer, the case has been subject to public opinion. Adnan Syed did not kill Hae Min Lee because he had a reliable alibi, the witnesses had inconsistent stories, and there was never a clear motive.

The most difficult thing an author can do when telling a story, is attracting an audience, and maintaining the audience’s engagement. In Serial, while telling the story of Adnan Syed, Sarah Koenigs attracts the audience with her purpose which is proving that Adnan Syed was wrongfully convicted and isn't completely guilty. Sarah maintains the attention of her audience by using emotional, and logical appeal, while also establishing credibility. In other words she uses the rhetoric made up of Pathos, Logos, and Ethos.

Anya Schultz, the author of a review titled Serial: A Captivating New Podcast, works to show how multiple narratives and stories can be manipulated and sometimes vastly misinterpreted. Serial, an intriguing, enthralling podcast hosted by Sarah Koenig, tells the story of Hae Min Lee, a young, beautiful, high school senior who was murdered in 1999. Lee 's case, as Koenig and Schultz point out, has a few missing pieces of information that were never accounted for. For example, how did the jury come to the conclusion that Lee 's ex-boyfriend, Adnan Syed, was truly guilty? Why did Syed 's lawyer forget to mention the letter from his acquaintance Asia McClain that could have polished his alibi?

She was a Korean-American student who attended Woodlawn High school. Four weeks after she had been reported missing, Hae Min Lee’s body was found in Leakin Park. Jay Wilder, the witness, later came forward to reveal what had happened to Hae, and who had allegedly committed the murder, which led to the conviction of Adnan, the victim's ex-boyfriend. Jay informed the police that Adnan allegedly told him that he was planning on killing Hae due to the fact Hae had ended their relationship 6 weeks before committing this murder, but my client never in any way shape, or form had the intention to kill her due to this fact as he has taken this break up as any other. Jay alleged that Adnan summoned him to the Best Buy parking lot, the scene of the murder, which was allegedly when Adnan showed him Hae’s body in the trunk of a car.

He could imagine his deception of this town “nestled in a paper landscape,” (Collins 534). This image of the speaker shows the first sign of his delusional ideas of the people in his town. Collins create a connection between the speaker’s teacher teaching life and retired life in lines five and six of the poem. These connections are “ chalk dust flurrying down in winter, nights dark as a blackboard,” which compares images that the readers can picture.

He told me about how it was a mystery that takes place in a park; it would only be appropriate because the man was a park ranger himself. As he explains more and more of his story in vivid detail, I become enamored. Soon enough, he begins to tell me about his experience as a park ranger. I was amazed at how much one man could go through. He had first told me about the woman who had her face mauled when she was taking pictures with a living bear inside of the car.