Rhetorical Analysis Of Staples

The misconceptions people have about Staples because he is a young black m an is that he is a mugger, gang member or up to no good for that matter. He feels that he causes these thoughts to people especially white females because whenever he is around people with a white skin color get tense. When he walks by a women she gets nervous in which her body language shows. She tenses up, holds her purse tighter, walks faster and sometimes even crosses to the other side of the street.

At the end of the essay Staples uses comparison to explain his behavior by him describing himself as a hiker who is hiking in bear country. He made a reference because now, whenever its late and he's taking a leisure walk he whistles Beethoven and Vivaldi and the more popular composers of classical music. He does this to diminish the fear of these white people because how he says it, what bigger would be whistling to "sunny selections from Vivaldi’s Four Seasons.”

He uses emotional when he describes situations in a way that forms imagery. For example, uses the description of what happened with the journalist that was held at gunpoint by police officers in Waukegan, Illinois where they mistook him as the killer that the reporter was sent to write a story about. Staples also uses logical appeal when he describes all the times he’s walked by a white women and she gets scared for her life. Lastly, ethical appeal is used when he says that every black man has stories that they exchange. This just doesn’t happen to him solely, this a occurrence to a man with a dark skin color. I believe Staples applies these appeals perfectly into this piece of writing, it gives it more life and