Brent Staples Narrative Analysis

In today's society many of the people are still accustomed to the culture of that many years ago in which people of color are seen ass less or not important. Throughout the years the prejudice views towards people of color has began to lessen in some ways but surely many of these prejudice views carried into the centuries after it. Brent staples Exemplification essay "Black Men and Public Space" and Jesús Colon's Narrative essay "Little Things are Big" both deal with the problems of prejudice views on people of color in different time periods. Both authors use similar characteristics in their writings to get a certain point across to the reader in order to understands their views.. While both of the authors used similar aspects in their writing …show more content…
The setting of both the stories play an impact on the point trying to be made and also it gives a better understanding of which essay is more effective. In Brent Staples "Black men and Public Spaces" the time period in which he encountered all these situations were in the mid seventies which is more recent. Jesus Colon's situation occurred in the 1950's which is significant to his train of thought throughout the story. Colon believe the women would react a certain way if he helped her, and he had a reason to thing this because during this time the civil rights movement started to originate. The white people during this time may have felt a certain way towards anyone who wasn't of white skin color. Although Jesus Colon is trying to show the Prejudice within people but the time period does not really emphasize the point being made because during this time it was expected of people of color to be hesitant towards white people. On the other hand, Staples essay takes place in more recent times where racism has calmed down. The point being made by Staples is more effective because it shows racism is still around even after all the things that occurred in the previous years. Staples also give many different scenarios in which has taken place in many different …show more content…
Both stories take place in different time frames which makes Staples essay more accurate. Both writers set a good tone in order to keep the reader intriged and to keep them on their feet. Jesus Colon keeps the reader on their feet waiting to see if he actually helps the women on the trains. The multiple stories in Staples essay allow for more accurate information about people who are still prejudice. Overall, Brent Staples wrote a more efficient and well organzied essay that kept the reader intriged and used many exaples to emphasize his