Expository Text

Group 2 Works

1. By Nadine Putri Maharani

2. By Muhammad Auliya Fadhilah

    1. What is the author claiming?

        Answer:

        Expository Text 1: 

        The author claiming that graffiti is an art

        Expository Text 2: 

        The author claiming that Graffiti is always vandalism

    2. What reasons does the author use to support the claim?

        Answer:

        Expository Text 1: 

        The reasons that the author uses to support the claim are First, graffiti enables the public to see something they may have never seen before. It connects them to the artist, and the artist gets to know that their work is loved and affects those who see it.

        Second, graffiti has the power to affect people positively. The people who create it are expressing themselves.

        The last reason why graffiti is an art is because of its uniqueness. Graiti can be made with many different materials, but its most common form is made by applying paint to a building’s wall.

        Expository Text 2: 

        The reasons that the author uses to support the claim are First of all, graffiti is something that one celebrates, if one is juvenile enough to do so, when it shows up on someone else’s property but never on one’s own.

        Next, the question “When does graffiti become art?” is meaningless. Graffiti is always vandalism. By definition, it is committed without permission on another person’s property, in an adolescent display of entitlement.

      3. What evidence does the author include?

            Answer:

            Expository Text 1: 

            Evidences the author include are:

• You can tell the quality of a person’s painting by the audience that they are drawing.
• Graffiti can be made with many different materials, but its most common form is made by applying paint to a building’s wall.
• Graffiti is made by someone utterly other than the artist, which means no two pieces are the same.
• Graffiti is a form of expression because it gives the reader or viewer the chance to see something different from their everyday life.
• Graffiti art is not meant to be understood by everyone, but everyone is meant to be appreciated.

            Expository Text 2: 

            Evidences the author include are:

• No institution that has celebrated graffiti in recent years like the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles or the Museum of the City of New York would allow its own premises to be defaced for even one minute.
• By definition, it is committed without permission on another person’s property, in an adolescent display of entitlement.
• Furthermore, John Lindsay, the progressive New York politician who served as mayor from 1966 to 1973, declared war on graffiti in 1972.
• A 2008 study from the Netherlands has shown that physical disorder and vandalism have a contagious effect, confirming the “broken windows theory.”

        4. What does the author say as the closing?

            Answer:

            Expository Text 1: 

            As part of the existing society, every person must strive to educate themselves of the origins of graiti and how it has evolved to this very day. A stock of knowledge doesn’t hurt; instead, it is a door that leads to understanding and more positivity.

            Expository Text 2: 

            There is nothing “progressive” about allowing public amenities to be defaced by graffiti; anyone who can avoid a graiti-bombed park or commercial thoroughfare will do so, since tagging shows that an area is dominated by vandals who may be involved in other crimes as well.

3. By Nezi Egan Darell

1. Why they write the text because they want to express they feeling and Graffitii is a form of expression because it gives the reader or viewer the chance to see something different from their everyday life.
2. My opinion about graffiti. First, graffiti enables the public to see something they may have never seen before, Second, graffiti has the power to affect people positively. The people who create it are expressing themselves. They are expressing their artistic abilities and their voices through a canvas.
3. I would fight the person that graffiti my property. Hehe
4. Of course not, if the graffiti is explicit it isn't, if it looks great then I will claim it.
5. Well nothing gonna happen.

4. By Salma Putri Andrianti

5. By Reuben Timothy Hygitt

6. By Sofia Aurora Septiani

   Q. What do you think about graffiti?

   A. I think, graffiti can be art and also vandalism. Graffiti is art if it was made nicely, full of art expressions, make the wall or the view around it better, and legal. But, it is vandalism if it was made illegally and make the view around it worse.

   Q. Mention four words related to graffiti.

   A. Paint, wall, art, vandalism.

    

   Q.  What are two arguments that support those who see graffiti as art?

   A. The arguments that support those who see graffiti as art, are: first, graffiti usually become the artists' or people's expressions that form the drawing in the wall that can enjoyed by public. Public can consider it as an art, especially if it seems beautiful or valuable. Second, graffiti has uniqueness, maybe in the materials, content, style, etc. There are no two art works those are the same, or there are no two artists those have the very same style and art works. So, graffiti is art.

   Q. Give two reasons why people believe that graffiti is vandalism.

  A. Graffiti is vandalism because: it usually made on the wall in public places those are public properties or government's properties without permission (illegal). The maker made it at night, so no one know that they made it. It usually ruins the appearance of the wall or building where it is on. The other reason, graffiti sometimes made just to express the makers' feeling, protest, rebellion, dissatisfaction, etc. without consider other method to express them besides make the graffiti.

   Q. For and againts are antonyms, give two antonyms for "create"!

   A. Antonyms for "create": destroy, annihilate.

   Q. Write one expression to show that you agree with someone's opinion!

   A. Expressions of agreement: 'I agree with you', 'You are right', etc.

   Q. What are three parts of expository text?

   A. Three parts of expository text are introduction, argument, and conclusion.

   Q. Write two sentences that indicate you dislike graffiti!

   A. Two sentences that indicate I dislike graffiti:

       1) I think graffiti has ruined the view of this city.

       2) Graffiti is a kind of vandalism that should be removed from all public places.

   Q. Why do you think people do graffiti in public places?

   A. I think, people do graffiti in public places because they have something that they want other people to know, or message they want to send to the public, no matter that it is important or no, it is legal or no, they just want to express it. Maybe graffiti in public places are indeed aims to interfere public with the content or to damage the place where it applied, for example because of grudge, etc. Maybe, they just don't have proper place to do graffiti, and they see that the facilities in public places are suitable for their creativity. So, they do it there. They think their graffiti is art, and art is free to do.

   Comment:

   I like graffiti if it is on the right place and if it has right and nice content. I hope there will be more places for graffiti artists to express their ideas and good messages.

7. By Reuben Timothy Hygitt

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