Waiting For Dan Analysis
What does “separate but equal” even mean? If all people were considered to be equal why did colored people get the worn down bathroom as whites got the nice up to date bathrooms. To me “separate but equal” is suppose to mean they have everything the same not treated differently in any way but, are divided. In the letter “A Letter Home” and the passage “Waiting for Dan” both show similarities and differences on what they are experiencing.
To start off, in the letter “A Letter Home” the narrator Kara goes to the college Kent State University and heard that four students died and nine were wounded. She immediately wrote to her parents saying she will be staying at the University for a little longer to comfort her friends and to fully understand …show more content…
To begin, in the passage no character involved or stated in the story died due to the complication that occurred, Dan was just sadly put into prison. On the other hand, in the letter paragraph 6 explicitly states, “Four Kent State students died, and nine students were wounded.” This shows how the problems stated in the text were both evidently vast yet, the letter stated how people got hurt and even passed away as the passage did not. Another disparity between the passage and the letter as the structure of each writing. In the passage “Waiting for Dan” the narrator the wife wasn’t actually experiencing the issue that was occurring her husband was, as it says in the text, “Before he [Dan] left, he justified his decision by saying the Freedom Ride would bring the race issue to the forefront of American politics” (7). As you can see this shows how the narrator, Dan’s wife wasn’t the one who went of and actually experienced the Freedom Ride. However, in the letter Kara was at Kent State University having a first hand account on the problem. In the text it says, “So I began hurrying away because the scene was bizarre. But bizarre soon turned to surreal. An officer began shouting on a bullhorn for everyone to disperse… the soldier began shooting” (5). This shows how Kara was actually there and heard the gunshots go off gladly she was far away that she wasn’t one of the thirteen who had to suffer from this
To start off, in the letter “A Letter Home” the narrator Kara goes to the college Kent State University and heard that four students died and nine were wounded. She immediately wrote to her parents saying she will be staying at the University for a little longer to comfort her friends and to fully understand …show more content…
To begin, in the passage no character involved or stated in the story died due to the complication that occurred, Dan was just sadly put into prison. On the other hand, in the letter paragraph 6 explicitly states, “Four Kent State students died, and nine students were wounded.” This shows how the problems stated in the text were both evidently vast yet, the letter stated how people got hurt and even passed away as the passage did not. Another disparity between the passage and the letter as the structure of each writing. In the passage “Waiting for Dan” the narrator the wife wasn’t actually experiencing the issue that was occurring her husband was, as it says in the text, “Before he [Dan] left, he justified his decision by saying the Freedom Ride would bring the race issue to the forefront of American politics” (7). As you can see this shows how the narrator, Dan’s wife wasn’t the one who went of and actually experienced the Freedom Ride. However, in the letter Kara was at Kent State University having a first hand account on the problem. In the text it says, “So I began hurrying away because the scene was bizarre. But bizarre soon turned to surreal. An officer began shouting on a bullhorn for everyone to disperse… the soldier began shooting” (5). This shows how Kara was actually there and heard the gunshots go off gladly she was far away that she wasn’t one of the thirteen who had to suffer from this