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The Onion By Bartolomeo Cristofori
The piano is introduced by Bartolomeo Cristofori as a revolutionizing instrument to the composition of music, while its' drawn delighted listeners through its melodies. The Onion presents Cristofori as the author of the following satirical piece article, which displays inventor's 'remorse' towards the murder of Luca Brasi in The Godfather. Within this analysis, Cristofori will be asserted as the writer of the satirical article due to the use of credibility in such phrases like "I" and "me." The invention of the piano cultivated the meaning of "nuance of expression," as it's ridiculed as the "instrument [of] death" through the use of exaggeration, sarcasm, humor, hypothetical scenarios, and appeals.
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He interprets mockery through 'personal' concern of the inventions use from conceiving "sonatas of Beethoven" to quickly escalating into a bludgeoning weapon that caused the "guy from The Godfather getting strangled with [a] piano wire." Furthermore, the texture of incongruity sets the piano onto Cristoforo's guilty conscience. The instrument is often placed into scenes where Beethoven and the whimsical Rachmaninoff cultivated their aroma of harmonies, yet it's regarded to scenes that killed Brasi in The Godfather. The shifts in views are identified through incongruity since the transitions have a lack of compatibility between situations. Furthermore, Cristoforo constantly has a guilty conscience of placing himself at the scene of the crime as being the one whom "lashed the wire around his neck with my own hands." This exaggeration classifies the post ergo propter hoc fallacy since Cristofori is the inventor; therefore, he's at fault for Brasi's murder. The fallacy is exhibited throughout the article due to 'it was my fault' conscience of the inventor and shifting focus upon his 'association' with the murder, while he believes "[Brasi's] last thought was to curse the name of Bartolomeo

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