Commentary on character's opinions- controversial issue

Both of the blogpost comments are opinions of two characters on the same sex marriage.The first character Chloe, comes across as an educated teenager. The language which she uses throughout the comment is rather sophisticated and it includes an explanation for the existing ideas through the use of a selection of simple and complex sentences. At the begining of the blogpost Chloe used a phrase 'over the moon' to express her hapiness on legalising same sex marriage. The moon ilustrates the brightness which is the eternal love that people of the same sex share. The use of abbreviations such as ‘sis’ and ‘gf’ suggests that Chloe is a teenager as both words belong to slang. They also are a part of the colloquial language. The word 'strongly' presents how much she supports it and the importance which it has to her. The use of 'miserable' and 'lonely' puts a massive effect on the noun 'life', as it shows that the quality of life can be affected by the same sex orientation. Both negative adjectives were used against straight people, which shows that Chloe may be discriminating them. ''This made me absolutely angry'' presents the anger that she experienced after reading the comment from a man from one of the major Christian groups who did not support same sex marriage. The word 'absolutely' shows the level of anger, which can suggest that she dislikes people who have different views and is not tolerant about opinions of others. Reading throughout the post we can also spot ‘LOL’ which stands for ‘Laughing out loud’ . In this context it is used to show how ‘pathetic’ someone else’s opinion is. The phrase ‘it’s a complete joke’ supports the fact that Chloe did not like the opinion that she seen in the BBC article, and she completely disagrees with it. She also makes a comment about Christian Groups and Catholics who according to her 'hate' on gay people. This phrase was used to present her idea of the lack of sympathy which is shown by Catholics towards same sex couples. She used quite a few lexis which include ‘-ly’ suffix such as ‘lonely and ‘equally’.  Her overall opinion on same sex marriage seems to be very positive and we can clearly see that she strongly supports it. However she seems to be very disrespectful and rude towards people whom decision is different, as she tries to tell them that they’re wrong and they should change. The reception of this blogpost may be quite negative. The audience, which are possibly same age readers or anyone wanting to get to know more about the issue, may feel that their views are being affected by Chloe's comment. Some may feel forced to change their personal opinion yet some may feel persuaded and their opinion and point of view might change after reading the post. The purpose of Chloe’s comment is to tell the readers how she personally feels about the issue and get her ideas across. She makes quite a few relevant points such as ‘people of the same orientation should be able to live a normal life, adopt children’ which many other people would agree with. However towards the end of the comment Chloe seems to be quite selfish and only thinks about what she wants not others. The expectations of the readers are met as they see someone else’s opinion just as they expected but they might be shocked with how biased it is.The second character Lily, seems to be older than Chloe, I tended this character to appeal to be in the stage of an early adulthood, 25 years old. This is because she uses standard English throughout her comment instead of slang. She doesn't use any abbreviations neither which can suggest that her idiolect doesn't consists of them.  Lily used capital letters to write some words such as 'wrong' to emphasise its importance which she wanted to draw the readers attention to. At the beginning she says that in her opinion same sex marriage is completely wrong, however towards the end she made it clear that everyone should have their own opinion, which should not be influenced by anyone else’s. She makes a strong link to the Catholic religion, as she says that ''Gay marriage is entirely against God's actions''. This may be slightly controversial as not every reader will agree with it,yet she still openely expressed her personal opinion which shows her braveness and love which she shares towards her religion. '‘Same sex marriage doesn't create a 'healthy' family’'. This quote presents her view on same sex marriage, and adjective ‘healthy’ can be defined in a variety of different ways. In this context, Lily uses ‘healthy family’ to refer to the family consisting of male, female and their biological children, whereas for the same sex couple this would be impossible. Lily used inverted commas to express ‘real’ and ‘parent’ to show that in real life it is a complete opposite, as it is impossible for same sex couples to be the real parents of their children.  She also used some rhetorical questions to closely appeal to the reader and make them feel just as someone was directly speaking to them. ‘’Would you rather live a normal life just as other members of your family or life that you would possibly regret when you're older? '' This quote might affect some readers opinion or even their actions as they may think that what they do may not exactly be the right thing. The audience of this post were people at the same age range and those who are gay/lesbian and consider a future commitment. The main purpose is to share the personal opinion and to inform people about their actions and possible future outcomes, by the use of rhetorical questions which make readers re-think their actions.The readers expect the post to be mainly based on Lily’s personal opinion yet it is slightly persuasive and tries to tell us that our views should be created based on how we feel not how someone else wants us to feel.