Rhetorical Analysis Of Just Walk On By Brent Staples
Juan Lopez
R. Fitzgerald
GEW 101
02 March 2017
Title of Paper
Journalist, Brent Staples, in his narrative essay, “Just Walk on By: Black Man and Public Space” narrates a series of events when he was growing up. Staples purpose is to tell personal stories in chronological order of how he was viewed by society. Other people convey the idea of a black man as a dangerous man in society. By the work of other people stereotypes. He adopts a fearful but apathetic tone in order to appeal to what he is feeling by applying a set of rhetorical devices in his narrative essay to his readers.
Staples begins his narrative essay by emphasize that a white woman ran for her life when he was walking right behind her and how he was expressing the depth of her movements as he walked. He appeals to the pathos by establishing a means of sympathy to the audiences by telling the …show more content…
In order to appeal to the audiences in an ethical appeal and a logical appeal by telling the audiences who he is. At the beginning of the essay it talks about Staples and how this make Staples credible to say what he is saying. This appeals to the Ethical appeal which make him more trustworthy to the audiences. According to Samuel Cohen who is the editor of “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space” said “Brent Staples earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and went on to become a journalist” (394). It also talks about where the essay was first published. Cohen said, “The following essay originally appeared in Ms. Magazine in 1986” (394). By incorporating this into the essay it brings up a sense of authority to the readers. And by telling the audiences where it was first published lets the audiences know who it was intended to. In the scene of Logos, it is a cite fact that Staples has a Ph.D. in psychology. Making the arguments that Staples is purposing in his
R. Fitzgerald
GEW 101
02 March 2017
Title of Paper
Journalist, Brent Staples, in his narrative essay, “Just Walk on By: Black Man and Public Space” narrates a series of events when he was growing up. Staples purpose is to tell personal stories in chronological order of how he was viewed by society. Other people convey the idea of a black man as a dangerous man in society. By the work of other people stereotypes. He adopts a fearful but apathetic tone in order to appeal to what he is feeling by applying a set of rhetorical devices in his narrative essay to his readers.
Staples begins his narrative essay by emphasize that a white woman ran for her life when he was walking right behind her and how he was expressing the depth of her movements as he walked. He appeals to the pathos by establishing a means of sympathy to the audiences by telling the …show more content…
In order to appeal to the audiences in an ethical appeal and a logical appeal by telling the audiences who he is. At the beginning of the essay it talks about Staples and how this make Staples credible to say what he is saying. This appeals to the Ethical appeal which make him more trustworthy to the audiences. According to Samuel Cohen who is the editor of “Just Walk on By: Black Men and Public Space” said “Brent Staples earned his Ph.D. in psychology from the University of Chicago and went on to become a journalist” (394). It also talks about where the essay was first published. Cohen said, “The following essay originally appeared in Ms. Magazine in 1986” (394). By incorporating this into the essay it brings up a sense of authority to the readers. And by telling the audiences where it was first published lets the audiences know who it was intended to. In the scene of Logos, it is a cite fact that Staples has a Ph.D. in psychology. Making the arguments that Staples is purposing in his