Bryan Stevenson's 'Antonio Nuñez'

In the article “The Prisoner” by Skip Hollandsworth tells the life story of Edwin Debrow, a young boy who grows up in the streets and fell into an out of control spiral when he joined the neighborhood gang. Edwin Debrow will go on to kill a taxi driver at the age of 12 and would now spend most of his life in jail. The author who has done numerous stories about kids and their tragic life has now focused on the case of Edwin

Contrary to the past attempt by elders to protect the youth, which involved scolding without reasoning, these two authors give their reader the naked truth when explaining the realities of this world. This naked truth is displayed when Coates tells his son “…the policeman who cracks you with a nightstick will quickly find his excuse in your furtive movements”(71). Coates doesn't avoid telling his son about the injustices that he may face nor does he avoid telling his son how this injustices will be justified. Baldwin illustrates his experience in New Jersey just as straightforward when he says “…I frightened the waitress who shortly appeared…I hated her for her white face and for her great, astounded, frightened eyes. I felt that if she found a black man so frightening I would make her fright worthwhile”(593). Baldwin uses powerful statements like “…I would make her fright worthwhile” in order to make sure his readers understand the intensity of this hatred. Both Coates and Baldwin paint vivid pictures with their explicit wording in order to be sure that the reader comprehends just how serious each matter

Rhetorical Analysis Paragraph, "The Terror" Notorious essayist and writer, Junot Diaz, in his essay, "The Terror", reflects on the fear a middle school beating implemented on him. Diaz's purpose is to express the life altering effect the power of fear can have on someone. The writes establishes an empathetic diction through the use of empathetic phrases such as, "white middle-class bigotry was cutting the heart out of me. "

It is difficult to portray a young boy as fortunate when his life quickly took a turn on him one day working. Being a prisoner of someone else is a hard experience to suppress especially when one is stripped from their family and homeland. The trials he faced challenged his will to live physically and mentally. He was once reunited with his sister, just to be torn out of her sight forever again. This time he felt the days passing were unbearable, “...I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me”(Equiano 54). When Equiano was in negative environments he felt the tragedy of wanting to end his life. He would wake up knowing that his life could end at any moment if he were to make

In his autobiographical narrative A Summer Life, Gary Soto vividly recreates the guilt felt by a six- year-old boy who steals an apple pie. Through Soto’s reminiscent he has taken us on a journey of his guilt, paranoia, and redemption through the usage of tone, allusions, and imagery.

Throughout the autobiographical narrative written by Gary Soto, many different literary elements are used to recreate the experience of his guilty six-year old self. Different elements such as contrast, repetition, pacing, diction, and imagery. Soto narrates this story as a young boy at a time when he seems to be young and foolish, Soto foolmaking mistakes, but at the same time hoping to learn from them. Soto uses each of these devices to convey different occurrences in the narrative.

Everybody’s felt it. That tingling sensation making all the hairs stand on the back of your neck. The sweat slowly rolling down the spine. The consciousness that everyone is staring at you, and knows the horrible deed you’ve committed. The guilty conscience of a six-year-old is a terrifying experience, and Gary Soto portrays it perfectly in his short autobiography reminiscing on when he plundered an apple pie many years ago. As we follow young Soto through the pressures of being a young criminal, he enhances the readers understanding of what it was like by using many different rhetorical devices and strategies. Soto uses a combination of imagery, symbols, and intriguing diction that allows the reader to peer into the life of his younger self.

In this article, “Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8”, Ethan Brown, the author, attempted to solve the murder case and prove the police authorities to being wrong and being responsible for the murders of the town. The main problem of this article is determining who is responsible for the murders of those eight women everyone’s contradicting stories. In an attempt to figure out what really happened Brown includes factual evidence from interviews and shocking statistics to inform the reader of what’s going on in the article. By providing such information, Brown indulges the audience into the full experience of solving the murder case.

The crime is defined as the law-breaking cruel action committed by the criminals. These criminals usually have some deep trauma deep in their heart and the sudden bursting of all the negative sentiments will result in very devastating consequences of hurting other human beings. This essay will mainly compare Perry Smith in In Cold Blood and Misfit in A Good Man is hard to find, which is both the main character and the main criminal in the two crime stories. They have a lot of things in common as a criminal with minor differences. They a are both cynical to the society; They have both found themselves isolated from the society.

"When the call came, my first thought was the same on I'd had when I'd heard about Rosa Parks's beating: a brother did it. A non-job-having, middle-of-the-day malt-liquor-drinking, crotch-clutching, loud-talking brother with many neglected children born of many forgotten women. He lives in his mother's basement with furniture rented at an astronomical interest rate, the exact amount of which he does not know. He has a car phone, an $80 monthly cable bill and every possible phone feature but no savings. He steals Social Security numbers from unsuspecting relatives and assumes their identities to acquire large TV sets for which he will never pay. (234)

Stevenson revealed to us that George was an police officer to show us how George’s status as an officer allowed him to be held at a different standard with regards to the crime he committed. Instead of considering all of the pain and suffering Charlie endured they completely dismissed George’s wrongdoing and the prosecution placed all the blame on Charlie, a fourteen year old adolescent. The impact of George’s abuse was clearly evident considering the injuries his mother sustained. Due to the George’s status as an officer, Charlie was tried as an adult and sent to an adult prison where he was a victim of sexual and physical assault. Charlie’s story is an example of how our Justice failed to protect our children.

Schultz first describes an experience he has of a prostitute approaching him and asking if he needed “company” in which Schultz responds by asking her why she chose this life (6). By questioning her career choice instead of shaming her ethics, he convinces the readers to reconsider their quick judgement of her selling her body immorally, knowing she has no other choice. This occurs again, when he experiences being held at gunpoint “not even 15 minutes later” by a strange man on the same street (23). Ordinarily, most people would assume this man is a criminal, but Schultz stated that it was “clear he wasn’t looking for a fight,” thus the listeners reconsiders how they feel about the him since he was not actually looking for violence, but just a way to get by (28). What is surprisingly appealing is the questions he asks them to figure out why they committed these crimes. Schultz uses these experiences to persuade his readers into understanding the reasoning behind these people's actions. Moreover, seeing it through Schultz’s point of view changes the audience’s perspective of these individuals giving them more credit than just being labeled a criminal or

The purpose of this narrative was to develop my writing skills by creating my first crime story while avoiding cliché. The goal was to portray a realistic relationship with an underlying serial killer theme. This was achieved through Anthea who had a more casual approach to relationships, which is demonstrated in paragraph one, "I duck under his

In his play, “The Shadow of a Gunman” Sean O’Casey attempts to contrast his idea of what an IRA gunman represents and the antihero’s failure to accept responsibility of the consequences resulting from his falsified pretentions as a gunman. Though the revelation of a true IRA gunman, the false heroism and profound cowardice that surrounds Donal Davoren is heightened as he wrongly poses as a gunman on the run. Davoren’s deception and ultimate lack of accountability creates a shadow world of illusion for those around him and the play results in an epic tragedy. As his lies penetrate deeper into the lives of Powell, Seumas Shields, and the remaining residents in the Tenement, Davoren becomes the shadow of a gunman.

The characteristics of the genre the work does meet is provide the reader thought provoking questions over their morals of what is considered a crime and what punishment should be made by delving into the mind of a criminal tormented by the guilt of a murder which presented psychological aspects, and displaying a situation that involves a criminal with motive and events that led to his imprisonment.