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Wright uses several appeals to emotion that relate to helplessness in his essay. One example is when he describes the black woman being mistreated by the two white men. “ One morning while polishing brass out front, the boss and his twenty-yr-old son got out of the car and half dragged half kicked a Negro woman into the store. A policeman standing on the corner looked on twirling his night-stick. I watched out of the corner of my eye, never slackening the strokes of my chamois upon the brass . . .. Later the woman stumbled out, bleeding, crying, and holding her stomach.” (302) Wright is forced to stand and watch as the two men drag out of the car and into the store the defenseless woman. This relays a feeling of helplessness to the reader because he can do nothing to help her, and if he tries, the same is likely to happen to him. By incorporating this into his es
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“As we passed the night-watchman, he slapped the maid on her buttock. The other situation he describes to get a rise out of the black people is when he was on his first job. ” (301) This is yet
Another example by Wright in attempt so anger the black people in order to convince them to start fighting back. The watchman looked at me with a long, hard, fixed-under state. In order for his readers to revolt Wright must first enrage them and make them want to fight.
Wright is an accomplished writer, however he uses a style that is easy to for everyone to understand. Wright made the “mistake” of asking one of the men to help him learn something. ”” (303) The men seem to be doing something nice for Wright by offering him a ride home, but when he didn’t say sir to a question asked by one of the men he “felt something hard and cold” (303) hit him between the eyes, a whiskey bottle. Another appeal Wright makes to helplessness is when he uses the story about the white night-watchman where he works. ““What’s the matter, boy? A white man called”
I told him my bicycle was broken and I was walking back to town
“That’s too bad,” he said. In the same story two men accused Wright is falsely accused by two men of not calling one of them sir.
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