In the news article, Six Dead After Church Bombing By a Washington post reporter the author's purpose is to is to inform the public of the horrors of the Birmingham bombing. The first way the author did this is by using powerful word choices such as “dripping blood”, “staggered”, and ”crushed”. These word choices helped me feel like the story was more believable and true. The next thing that this reporter did to inform us of the traumas of the bombing was with all of the little details. All of the teeny-tiny details that just added a little extra oomph. Things like every little descriptive word like “As police struggled to hold back the crowd,” makes me feel like I was there and watching this process.The last thing that the reporter did
These are the four little girls that had died in the bombing of The 16th street Baptist church. Their names were Addi Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Carol Denise.
The 16th Street Baptist Church Bombing on September 15, 1963 has been one of the most historic bombing in the African American community. Since then, the Spike Lee’s Four Little Girls film and the poem, Ballad of Birmingham, have been created to commemorate the event and the loss of the four beautiful young girls. Both have received awards for their outstanding and thoughtful works that both artist put into their projects. The movie, Four Little Girls, was a very stimulating movie because it was not your typical scripted play. It was a documentary of all the family, friends, and community that were affected by this event. On the other hand, the poem, Ballad of Birmingham, was very eye opening because it put a new perspective of the church bombing.
For instance dozens of children coming of age the way the harsh street life taught them, which gives them the simulation of a rough protective shell that could be spotted miles away but deep inside is the sensitive story. There is no need to get off the car to really see how bad the conditions of the people shelters. In every corner, you spot families huddled in order to feel each other’s warmth like a duffle coat, cozy and comforting. On the hottest of summer days you could see the heat bounces off the streets, and causes an illusion of dancing waves. Magnifying
There are stories he incorporates to illustrate the point. In the middle we move to a more self-centered narrative. He tells of his story in New Jersey where he realized he could kill someone. He shares some of his thoughts of why people acted as they did towards him and others. This is an effective way he uses narrating and analyzing to work for the reader’s understanding.
Besides the intuitive black-and-white graphics, Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close displays a series of gripping texts that range from profound seriousness to adventurous lightheartedness. The story follows through the footsteps of a nine year old boy named Oscar Schell after his father passed away from the 9/11 attack on the World Trade Center. Oscar is left traumatized and is constantly unhappy with himself and others. Through his story, Oscar illustrates how to forgive himself from the feelings of regret, loss, and emotional strain. Furthermore, he provides an explicit example showing that even after a painful heart-rending experience, one can overcome fear and transcend grief.
In 1963, a month after Martin Luther King’s I have a dream speech rang harmonies of freedom and equality throughout the United States, Klan members set off dynamite in the sixteenth Baptist Church. The resulting explosion and compromise in the integrity of the building killed four girls. These girls, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley, Carole Robertson, and Denise McNarr were the victims of this atrocity. The events that followed furthered the bloodshed. Thousands of black protestors flooded the streets in protest of the horrific acta that took place in the sixteenth Baptist street church [2]. It was not until 2001 and 2002 when some of the men responsible for the crimes would be prosecuted and eventually convicted. Though the intent of the bombing was to instill fear and panic into the black community, what came about was unity and a call to action.
I think the author adopts the tone that he uses because he wanted to tell the story from a factual basis so we can understand the city, community and why it's important to him. If he told what he thought about the city and off of that how it’s important to him, we could have made our own judgments. Our own judgments could have been wrong or what he doesn’t want us to think about the city. However, since he told all facts about the city, we know the facts about the city and got to know the exact factual reasons why the city is important to him as the best way to show or prove your point is through
Closing Sentence: Momady used very deep descriptions of the things he saw around him. This gave the readers a better picture of what he was seeing.
Details are the significant part of the story that gives clues to the reader what's going on the scene. For example, from the Great Gatsby passage: The eye of Doctor T.J. are blue and gigantic. This phrase states that the author is attempting to make the reader ponder about how is the eye relevant to the story and what does it have to do with the valley. Besides, it gives them clues about what does doctor T.J's eyes symbolize. On the passage, there's another example of the detail that plays a significant role in letting the reader know about the situation. For example, The valley of ashes is bounded on one side by a small foul river. This sentence also acts as a detail of the passage because it provides the fact of the valley of ashes saying that the valley also has a small river. Because of this details, it shows that the author provided everything that assists the reader to comprehend the scene.
In the world, it is so easy to walk past an individual that is in distress without even knowing that there is something wrong. People notice something and expect the individual in front of or behind them to assist the distressed, and it happens more than often. For example, driving past an individual that is stranded on the side of the road is so simple. It is much easier to drive past than assist, especially when driving on a city street. Many people think about helping, and want to help, but they just do not.
It’s a bit too much information about what happens when he is operating. He makes it interesting for me to read and continue. I don’t like things that are graphic but he makes it interesting. Both of these authors kept their readers interested in the essay and kept the readers entertained by the way they wrote. They both kept me interested in their essays.
The most significant part of the entire text is that most of the readers will never feel the pain of author. The ability not to be able to relate and understand someone’s struggle is very impactful.
“Bombs Bursting in Air” begins with the narrator talking about her son’s game and her daughter acting silly while singing the national anthem. More specifically, the line “Bombs bursting in air.” The author gives the word “bombs” a whole new definition in this essay. Rather than meaning an explosive weapon often used in war, Johnson refers to the difficult obstacles people face everyday. The more one risks a person takes results in more of life’s destructible bombs. These obstacles explode unexpectedly, and that is exactly what happened to Shannon. Shannon is five years old and is the author’s daughter’s best friend. Doctors found a brain tumor when she went to get an x-ray for a sledding accident. After
Near the end of the story, it is revealed that the driver heads off to pick up another person named “the fat man.” This alluded to the second atomic bomb in WW2 which was nicknamed, “Fat Man” and as the audience realised that the driver means to pick up another suicide bomber, they felt vexation for the protagonists’ village and further sorrow for the opposing village that had already been bombed. These emotions the audience felt reinforced my allegorical message on the wrongness of the atomic bombing and the innocence of the civilians. To my surprise however, when I inquired people about the atomic bombings, a majority of them only at most heard vaguely about the event. Because of this, some of them did not receive my allegorical message. I believe that I should have chosen a more prominent historical event for my allegory. However, those who knew about the event believed that my use of techniques was “smart,” albeit “a little