Twilight Los Angeles 1992 Sparknotes

Title Anna Deveare Smith’s book Twilight: Los Angeles 1992 is a witness-centered, composite tale of various experiences of the Rodney King riots. It is an emotional book, primarily centered on the attitudes and feelings of the riot’s victims. The purpose of Twilight is to lay bare the damage, loss and suffering caused by the violence. The book is not an attempt to make a judgment on the outcome of the King trial, as Smith states in the introduction “Twilight is an attempt to explore the shades of that loss. It is not really an attempt to find causes or to show where responsibility was lacking”(Smith xxi). The author accomplishes this by using emotional appeals and language to put the reader into the witnesses’ spot. The most obvious rhetorical