Analysis of a Walk to Remember

The issues of race, gender, and class are all told through the real life stories of Ph.D psychologist, Brent Staples. He uses examples from his life to explain how he has been misjudged based on his looks. Staples uses various rhetorical devices in his essay, “Just Walk on By,” to address his argument. Throughout his story he argues that he is the victim when being discriminated against by specifically white women. The strategies used in his writing appeal to the audience because they expose a compelling argument, that blacks are constantly discriminated against, while still teaching discrimination and different stereotypes. The intended audience varies a wide spectrum. Both minorities and students ranging from high school to college are the audience of his essay. Students may benefit from his writing by learning new techniques of description, while still understanding his perspective on racial tensions. Staples argues that the predisposed stereotypes about blacks are false by using different rhetorical devices such as imagery, analogies, and sequences of threes to help further enhance his point to the readers.

Ben Staples is a 22 year old black man who attended the University of Chicago who identifies as a softy. In his essay Just Walk on By he discusses how he was treated by members of the community late at night. Citizens, bouncers, police officers, and doormen all treated him as a threat toward the peace of the neighborhood. He uses vivid descriptions to explain how people made him feel late at night, which helped put the reader understand what he was going through. In the essay Just Walk on By, Brent Staples uses strong ethos and pathos to convey the way that black people are treated in public.

In Thomas C. Foster’s guide, How to Read Literature Like a Professor Revised Edition, Foster presents readers with the knowledge that a trip in literature has the potential to become something much deeper, a quest for self-knowledge. Foster lists five very important aspects that every quest will have which are, a quester, a place to go, a stated reason to go there, challenges and trials en route, and a real reason to go there. The distinction between stated reason to go there and real reason to go there are that typically the quester goes along their journey and discovers an intimate detail about themselves that relates nothing to the stated reason. It gives the quester a better sense

In the movie ““A Walk to Remember”,”, starring Shane West and Mandy Moore, the opening scene is located in a North Carolina small town where the well-liked and rebellious juvenile Landon Carter is approached with the possibility of being put out of his school because he and his friends have left proof of drinking which is illegal on the varsity grounds, which have gone on to seriously injure another student as the prank went wrong. The principal of school provides Landon with the option or selection of being removed for school for his actions by helping fellow students and taking part in part of the formal school play. As he is participating in these functions, Landon meets another student Jamie Sullivan, a lady he has been keen on since preschool and as she additionally is native minister's girl. Since he is one most popular people in the school, he has hardly noticed Jamie, who mainly wears the usual dresses and has only a couple sweaters. Jamie is mainly considered as weird nobody is social connected with. She never wears make-up nor does she like to draw people to herself.

Text E1 is titled just walk on by, written by Brent Staples. He was born in Chester Pennsylvania and was an author/editorial for the new york times. The text is an essay and was written in 1986 while the major events of racial profiling and brutality were a big issue. Throughout Brent's life, as an African-American, he lived with being discriminated and verbally abused by other races for example, whites. In the text he tells the how he feels when people run away from him or how he feels when whites are afraid because they see a black man nearby. Brent discusses how it is “abnormal” to be black in where he lived. In order to be respected in that town you have to look, dress and even talk like the white people do. He talks about how he has

"Phoenix Jackson: Mind Over Matter" Novelist Eudora Welty is often studied and adored by many readers; her much deserved recognition comes from her brilliant, deeply compassionate, and lively stories and novels (Ford 36). Like many of her stories, Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path" is set in Mississippi. In "A Worn Path," Welty focuses on an old woman's journey to Natchez and on the many obstacles that she encounters along the way. Phoenix is going to town to get medication for her beloved grandson. But he trip is difficult because nature and her handicaps are making it hard for her to reach her destination. Nevertheless, the old woman boldly continues along the equally old path, struggling every step of the way. Even

Throughout American history African Americans have been racially profiled as criminals and thugs for many years by other ethnic groups. Brent Staples, a journalist talked about his experiences being falsely labeled as a criminal by many, in his article written in 1986 titled, “Just Walk On By”, originally published in Ms. Magazine. Staples begins to build his credibly by using personal facts, testimonies, and using several emotional appeals.

Brent Staples’ essay Just Walk on By (New York: Ms.Magazine, 1986) was is an autobiographical description and illustration on how racial stereotypes affect the word we live in. today. Staples went through many incidents throughout his life where he had to deal with people’s reaction to him being an African American male. in today's society. “ My first victim was woman---white, well dressed, probably in her early twenties. I came upon her late one evening on a deserted street in Hyde Park, a relatively affluent neighborhood in an otherwise mean, impoverished section of Chicago.” His first eye-opening encounter was with a white woman in a rich neighborhood in Chicago. One evening, Staples was walking behind a women( change to singular) with his hands in his pockets and she assumed that he was out to harm her, once she turned around and had seen that he was a 6’ ( in alphabets/ not numbers)African American male. After she had seen who was behind her she picked up her pace out of fear and was soon was running until she disappeared into another street, away from Staples. As a result, “I began to take precautions to make myself less threatening. I moved about with care, particularly late in the evening. I give a wide berth to nervous people on subway platforms during the wee hours, particularly when I have exchanged business clothes for jeans.,” emphasizes Staples. These occurrences essentially made him so conscious of scaring other people that he changed his entire routine to

“It was in the echo of that terrified woman’s footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I’d come into – the ability to alter public space in ugly ways.” Just Walk On By: A Black Man Ponders His Power to Alter Public Space, was written by Brent Staples. Staples was born in 1951 in Chester, Pennsylvania. He graduated Widener University with a B.A degree in behavioral science and the University of Chicago with a Ph.D. in psychology (History). To white people, specifically white women, any person of color is seen as a threat to them. Staples wrote this narrative argument to show that people of color, specifically black people, are always going to be subjected to their stereotype. They would always be feared because of the

Brent Staples’ essay titled, “Just Walk On By”, really impacted and resonated with me. His essay was about the many discriminations that African Americans face every day. He was able to deliver this powerful message by telling the story of how he faced stereotypes and racial profiling almost all the time. He describes how just a simple walk at night could threaten and frighten a local white civilian. Every day he was seen as a dangerous and outlawed criminal because of the color of his skin. He gave examples of these discriminations that he faced by describing how when he was simply taking a nighttime stroll to put himself to sleep frightened a white lady walking ahead of him. She automatically assumed that because they were walking alone

During the book, McKnight seeks to show the reader as to how involved God is in their lives, whether they are aware of it or not. What this means is every single individual person that has ever lived or will ever live, will have a dream. This dream can be a range of things, but each dream has a similar goal, one that we are unaware of. The main goal of every person’s dream is to reach their dream; the meaning behind this is that their dream is what God has planned for them to do. If a person devotes their one life to their dream, everything else in life falls into place. [1]

“Thoreau walking” was written by Henry David Thoreau who has abundant of love for nature and walking. I believe “Thoreau walking” to be such a great lecture that instantly grab your attention and pull you in as you read it. The more you read you become more and more interested. In addition, I believe everyone may have a different interpretation and understanding to Thoreau lecture and that what makes it so great. I found myself reading the lecture couples of time to have my own understanding of what Thoreau is saying and what he meant in each line. Furthermore, Thoreau does not only talk about his love for nature and walking he also expresses his opinion about problems that are going on around him and in the society, that he did not

Phoenix Jackson lived back in the country past the pines. She lived a lifetime of hardship. Her role in society is an old black woman in a white world, though she is not ashamed of her inferior position. She has walked a path periodically to get medicine for her chronically ill grandson who drank lye. On a cold December day, she shares one of her journeys to the hospital in Eudora Welty's "A Worn Path." This specific journey is examined closely of an old woman full of dedication, dignity and high morale.

Usually at least once in a lifetime a person will question whether a dream was reality or not. It is rare to think “I am just dreaming” in a dream. In the 1990s movie Total Recall the director, Paul Verhoeven, attempts to illustrate the puzzling question of “what is reality and what is not?” With Arnold Schwarzenegger in this futuristic flick, the director cleverly confuses the audience about what is “real” in the movie, making one doubt each previous scene. Total Recall begins with the main character, Douglas Quaid, on a mission to decipher a reoccurring dream that takes place in Mars. His curiosity and frustrations take him to ReKall Inc. who has a specialty in a very

A dream is a goal in life, not just dreams experienced during sleep. Most people use their dreams as a way of setting future goals for themselves. Dreams can help to assist people in getting further in life because it becomes a personal accomplishment. Langston Hughes's poem "Dream Deferred" is speaks about what happens to dreams when they are put on hold. The poem leaves it up to the reader to decide what dream is being questioned.