Summary Of Eye Of The Storm By Carn Rousse

After reading “Eye of the Storm” by Carolyn Rousse, it makes me question the diversity and quantity of the realities each of us perceive. In the beginning of the piece, there are two narratives provided that are quite different, yet about the same people. Both narratives include a black man and woman who survive a “terrible storm”. Yet, every other detail is different. In the first narrative, the couple sells drugs without explanation while in the other narrative the couple sells drugs because of “poor education, limited job skills, and alienation from middle and upper-middle class social networks…” (64). In the first narrative some may pass judgement on the couple as they are portrayed selling drugs without cause. Contrastingly in the second