Summary Of Brent Staples A Brother's Murder

The article I have chosen “ A Brother's Murder” is by Brent Staples. I have chose this article because it is a moving subject. This article is about the day a brother looks back on this day happening to be the day he received the news of his brother's death. This article starts off as a memory of this day and explains what happened and some of the things the brother was dealing with.

“ It has been more than two years since my telephone rang with the news that my younger brother Blake just twenty-two years old had been murdered.” This is how the article starts this is a impacting statement that catches the reader's grasp from just the first sentence. When reading this I read this sentence and immediately wanted to find out what had happened. Throughout this article you find little clues that may have caused the murder as the author goes on he says “ A senseless rivalry beginning, I think, with an argument over a girlfriend- escalated to from posturing, to threats, to violence, to murder.” When reading this it had sparked a flicker to so many people to get into disagreements over little things that eventually lead to someone either being seriously injured or killed.
When he stated that “ Killing is only machismo taken to the extreme.” He was saying that people killed to show their power and how they would do anything to keep