Summary Of The Adopted Black Baby And The White One Who Replaced Her

The article “The Adopted Black Baby, and the White One Who Replaced Her” by John Eligon talks about the life of Ms. Smith and Ms. Roost who switched parents when they were just newborn babies. The reason for this situation was the fact that Ms.Smith was a dark skin baby and the couple that adopted her were white. It is later explained that Ms.Roost, the baby that replace Ms. Smith, searched for Ms.Smith to find out what happened to her after she was sent away. The author clearly emphasizes this points in the article by the use quotes from the people that were part of the whole issue. An example is the quote that the author was able to obtain when Mr. Sandberg ,the man that adopted the black child, said “I’m ashamed of myself. I don’t know whether I made
This is a tool that most writers in our journalism class should be able master since we can’t just make assumptions about everything we hear at school or anywhere else. Also, John Eligon uses strategies such as the description of social and racial issues happening in Deerfield. This information helps make the subject engaging and relevant for a variety of audiences since it discusses a very controversial topic, racial discrimination, through the story of a newborn baby who got rejected by the first family that adopted her because she was black. In regards to the organization of the article, the introduction contains background of the all white community and a little bit of the life of Ms.Smith, after the exchange. The author did emphasize the 5’Ws but later in the article because since the main focus of the article was explain from different perspectives, they were all well distributed in the body of the article which contained the life of the girls that grew up into different