David Gebroe's scathing review of Pink Floyd's Animals uses two of the moves in the Harris textbook but blatantly disregards the last one. Gebroe spends most of the review "defining the project" of the album and explaining the context under which the album was created. He points out that Animals was inspired by Animal Farm but he interprets this as the songwriter's "contempt for humanity within his effort to pull down a degree of literary respectability."
The second move defined by Harris is "noting keywords or passages in the text". Gebroe does an excellent job pointing out lyrics from specific songs and examining the metaphors in the lyrics: "the businessmen are dogs, the corrupt leaders are pigs, and the clueless hoi polloi are the sheep, of course." Ending the text with a quote from one of the songs was an effective use of this move as well.
"Assessing the uses and limits" of Animals was a move that Gebroe clearly ignored. While the limits were expounded upon the entire length of the text, there were no positive remarks concerning any aspect of the album. The nature of the Column, "On Second Thought" delivers opinionated writing that almost depends on this one-sided argument and draws the ire of its readers (and commentators).
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