On Saturday, July 20, 2013 on The New York Times - international weekly an article was released from Moscow, Russia and was written by Andrew E.Kramer. The article is about the popular photo sessions with circus animals. It was targeted to families who attend circus shows or children who find a thrill in taking pictures with dangerous animals. However it was a warning to anyone who took photos with the animals and there are facts regarding the safety of approaching wild animals.
Thought the article the main idea revolves around audience members posing with dangerous predators. The author questions the purpose behind families attending the circus, whether its seeking adrenaline or the fascination by large preforming animals. There were many accidents from these sessions, last year a 2-year-old boy was bit by the tiger and it fractured his skull. Why would the parents put their children in danger for a photo that can be photoshopped? Throughout the article, the author uses quotients from authority to make the reader believe that it is real. For example He uses Maksim Y. Nikulin who is supposedly the director of the circus, he says People go to the circus for adrenaline, if it appeared to be entirely safe it would not be interesting. you watch and you think, oh, that man could be eaten right now or that gymnast could fall right now Him saying that makes meaning of the photo session with the wild animals. But the author changes the subject from with to against by getting evidence from kids who where injured during these photo sessions. The article makes you question whether you are with or against it.
The Russians call themselves Risk Takers so the author uses history to back up this by going back to the soviet period. Some of the parents force their children into taking the picture, while others think I wonder if the tiger is full? and this tends them to remove their child from the session and leave.