What I noticed while reading the obituaries that is different from other newsworthy stories is that they tend to focus mainly on one person and the events that happened all throughout their life. The story typically includes things from all the way back to their childhood up through what they were doing in life right before death. Other types of news stories include details of one or maybe two particular events not a whole range of things. Sometimes news stories talk about things from different years, but they’re usually related to one topic. From what I’ve read in these two obituaries, they include things that are only specific to what that person has done in their life. I like how the writing in the obituaries focus mainly on happy events that happened in that person’s life, and seem to leave out things that are questionable, or would draw negative attention.
The New York Times obituary seemed to focus more on what that person had accomplished in his life rather than building him up as a happy person or something like that. They still were able to keep out negative images, and keep from making him seem like a bad person, but it seemed that the author was more focused on life acheivements rather than the person himself.
In the Oregonian, I saw that the author focused on how good of a person Mr. Gomez was and how he helped so many people through the actions in his life. This was different from the Times obituary because it shyed away from life achievements and focused more on how he lived and how he was a help to his family and community.
