Anne Beatty's The American Scholar

In The American Scholar: Survival Skills at a School in L.A., kids are exposed to violence, and death. These kids are becoming numb to such acts of violence and know no different. When most people think of Los Angeles, they think of Hollywood, the glitz and glamour of celebrities, not the violence that surrounds the area and threatens the kids and young adults, creating an upsetting situation because kids experience death as a part of their lives. Los Angeles appears as make-believe land to many people, where all act as positive and happy all the time; however that is not the case. Furthermore death creates numb kids and has the potential to make them violent criminals as well. Anne Beatty’s effective ethos brings attention to the violence
The writing style brings out emotions that have the power to overwhelm people, not to make them feel pity or sadness, but to help them realize the reality of the innocent kids’ lives, also it discusses the various ways kids endure hurt and no child, teen or even an adult, should have to experience the trauma that lives in the daily lives of the South Central Los Angeles school. Anne Beatty maneuvers powerful emotion with a strong writing style to draw people in and makes them empathize and sympathize with the kids or faculty experiencing the loss of a friend or family member. Furthermore, no one should have to go through the pain of the numerous amounts of death the kids, parents, and teacher see on a day to day
L.A. breathes glamour and famous people, but in order to survive, realize that many problems face that area every day, the celebrities overshadow the problems though. If Michigan had celebrities such as Reese Witherspoon or Luke Bryan, Detroit issues would be overlooked too, but Michigan does not, so the problems continue on a public stage. The city of Los Angeles would benefit if people stopped focusing on the celebrities and started focusing on helping people and the problems; the violence and helping people, especially kids, avoid the traps of a life of crime or