Sheri Fink does a great job of not showing whether or not she takes a side in the story, however in my opinion she took to the defense of the lifecare patients, basically saying that the decision to sacrifice the sicker patients was wrong without really saying it, but by how she inserted quotes in specific places, such as the end of the first part when she includes a quote from Mark Leblanc, who asked: ” do you just flip a switch and you’re not a hospital anymore?”, she’s trying to lean the reader to see how wrong the way the hospital managed the whole situation was. She gives us an image of a calamity waiting to happen from the moment you start reading.
The paragraph beginning with the full details… is important because it opens the forum to a very important and most likely controversial topic on what paramedics should and should not be able to do in states of emergency, obviously it lets us know that she (FInk) believes this particular part of the story is key, and whether she agrees with it or not, deserves more attention from the public, it is a key aspect of the story, and it is important because she wants the reader to lean in that direction.
The story is organized with the intent to arouse the curiosity of the reader, the beginning of the story is descriptive, but not telling us any real details, after arousing the reader’s attention with descriptive imagery of the bodies, she goes into a sort of narrative story on what exactly happened to lead to the events that caused such controversy into hurricane Katrina, but its also important to note that before she goes into the narrrative, she explains who Ms. Pou is and makes it a case to not portray her as some heartless women, which kind of helps her look as neutral as possible throughout the story.
