After reading the article, the question that really stood out for me was: where is the line?  At what point is security over excessive, and starts to impose a threat to our privacy?  The government now has easy access to our fingerprints, through the new iPhone, but what happens if they actually do take these fingerprints?  Is the next step monitoring our thoughts?  Unfortunately, the line between privacy and security is fine, and when weighing the consequences between over security and over privacy, over privacy's consequences are more traumatic than over security, thus, Security will keep winning over privacy.

My first impression of the story was that it took place in America, during the difficult transition period, where blacks and white were on the verge of becoming equal.  However, looking back, the setting of South Africa during the '90s seems more fitting.  The story's meaning and tone were pretty straight forward for me.  Racism and fear of diversity were prominent within the story.  My strength in reading analysis are finding foreshadowing, and connecting ideas.  My strategy when reading is to pick out seemingly useless/odd information, and keep it in the back of my mind, as most of the time it's purpose is elaborated on later.  In this piece, my strategy did help me, specifically with "cats always look before they leap" and the boy's fate.  Areas I need to improve on are my character analysis and how thoroughly I read the story.

In an open letter to David Cameron, the Prime Minister of the UK, Stephen Fry compared Putin's actions against gays in Russia to Hitler's massacre of the Jews during World War II.  While Putin's actions as of late are similar to early Hitler antics, comparing the actions of Hitler to Putin's is a bit insensitive.  Seeing as Stephen Fry is Jewish himself, I would have expected him to be a bit more sensitive.  

Putin has yet to exterminate mass numbers of gays, nor has he viciously invaded and taken over surrounding countries.  What Stephen Fry over looks is that many people suffered under the reign of Hitler, and while Jews suffered the most, other people were also striped of their rights.  For example, aryans (white people with blonde hair and blue eyes) could not marry or be married to non aryans.  

While Stephen Fry is correct in saying that the laws against LGBT athletes is sickening, and action should be done, comparing this to Hitler's massacre of the Jews is disgusting.  One cannot compare the two.  Therefore, Stephen Fry largely over exaggerated Putin's laws in his open letter. 
 
On a side note, Hitler actually allowed gays to compete in the 1936 Olympics, held in Berlin, despite having laws against homosexuals.  He did not want to be criticized by the rest of the world for his harsh laws.