Whitehead uses his own experiences from this city, as resident, to expose its beauty and its affection to others. He states “It’s the early seventies, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I’m sticking to it.” The author shows his stubborn mind as he sticks to his society and would rather not reveal its internal secrets. This pathos appeal states his grounds and his background experience through his love to this city. Later, Whitehead states “Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” This idea is compared to the idea in the other passage of “Manhattan”, where people see what they see without questioning these details and exposing the internal view of the object. As a result, this argument between these two authors, is juxtaposed and contrasted through their views of Manhattan. Colson Whitehead, a resident and calls this city his” hometown” neglects to see how this city hides its reality with its external beauty. While John Berger states his claim, and argues how Manhattan ceases to hide its internal. Instead of fixing the internal, they would rather spend their time improving the
Whitehead uses his own experiences from this city, as resident, to expose its beauty and its affection to others. He states “It’s the early seventies, so everything is filthy. Which means everything is still filthy, because that is my city and I’m sticking to it.” The author shows his stubborn mind as he sticks to his society and would rather not reveal its internal secrets. This pathos appeal states his grounds and his background experience through his love to this city. Later, Whitehead states “Thousands of people pass that storefront every day, each one haunting the streets of his or her own New York, not one of them seeing the same thing.” This idea is compared to the idea in the other passage of “Manhattan”, where people see what they see without questioning these details and exposing the internal view of the object. As a result, this argument between these two authors, is juxtaposed and contrasted through their views of Manhattan. Colson Whitehead, a resident and calls this city his” hometown” neglects to see how this city hides its reality with its external beauty. While John Berger states his claim, and argues how Manhattan ceases to hide its internal. Instead of fixing the internal, they would rather spend their time improving the