The Story of a Suicide: Part Two

After the first part of the reading on "The Story of a Suicide" by Ian Parker, I relate to it as being more focused on the descriptions of the two students, Ravi and Tyler Clementi. The second part of the reading seemed to center around the events and decisions that led up to Tyler's suicide and Ravi's court case. In the last of the story, Parker describes the evidence in great detail and is careful not to miss a thing or leave out any important information. Parker includes the evidence of Ravi when he turns on his computer camera to receive video of Tyler Clementi, but also includes Ravi mentioning that what he did felt very wrong. Parker makes sure to include Clementi's feeling about this as being alright with it at first, but then he starts to feel very angry because of the invasion of privacy. After the first time he saw Clementi having an intimate moment, he seemed excited about doing it again, as if the feelings of shame disappeared completely because he couldn't pass up another opportunity have something to talk about with his friends (or something related to that). After Clementi killed himself, Ravi lied about wanting to spy on his roommate again to the police. Parker also mentioned that Ravi denied any offered plea bargains because, as Parker investigated, he truly believed himself to be innocent.

I think that Parker did a very good job at including all of the view points of everyone in Clementi's life. Parker included quotes from his parents, his relatives, his friends, and Ravi. I believe that the reason he had done this was to try to help us get a good sense of who Clementi was and, in the process, let us come up with our own thoughts as to how Ravi could have impacted Clementi's decision of suicide. However, I truly think that Ian Parker should have at least mentioned Clententi's reason to kill himself could have been completely unrelated to Ravi, or, at least, there could have possibly been other contributing factors to the suicide. Even though Parker did not seemed to be biased at all, if he had suggested this, then I will know for sure that even he realizes that Clementi's reason for suicide is still not completely understood and in turn, he will let all of his readers realize that too.