Picture something for me, you are walking to school on a nice sunny day, you stop to cross the street, a car drives by shoots you up and leaves you on the ground to ooze the remaining life from the new bullet holes now decorating your body. When a person thinks of a gang they think of a group of thugs with weapons and bad intentions, they do not picture poor children scared for their lives. Children in poor areas have grown up in gang violence, a child’s upbringing creates them into the person that they are. Author Anne O. Beatty shines light on the situation of gang violence by describing her personal experience when teaching in poor school in South Central LA. Beatty uses ethos, pathos, and logos to describe her experiences in a way that …show more content…
Her article begins by addressing how every time a student dies the school has a moment of silence. The key phrase “every time” indicates that she experiences the death of a student often enough to use such a lax and casual description. This first statement gives her the credibility and believability of her knowledge of the topic, credibility does not always take the form of a piece of paper, it can be in the form of experiences and encounters as well. To further her credibility on the topic being wrote about, Beatty shares some of the tragedies that her students befell. She addresses only a small portion of the very large list of dead students. She describes how the children she knew died in a very frank and detached way, you can feel the monotone vibrations from her voice while reading the ink. You can tell this by the structure of her sentences, she frequently adds commas for a pause affect. Beatty exhibits how these kids were only a grain of salt in the salt shaker, her choppy cut up sentences give a rushed feeling indicating that the deaths of children were frequent enough that they struggled to keep up with the casualties, catching the steady flow of salt in her