“Such episodes are not uncommon. Black men trade tales like this all the time.”
I quote these two sentences from two different degrees. First, the author wrote the former sentence using two privative words “not” and “uncommon” which made this sentence become an affirmation sentence. Actually the author could just write the sentence like this: “Such episodes are common”, and it would also make sense. So why did the author still need to do so? Because it will bring an effect which can emphasize the sentence so that it can strengthen the author’s feeling. Yes, it is not uncommon! The author expressed his anger from the words. And this sentence can also be used in our essay which can better show our feelings.The other side is from the content of the essay. The author owned this kind of misunderstanding to episodes. It really shocked us. Because episodes which show on TV means things are dramatic and can hardly happen in our real life, however, things like episodes always happen to the black people. They were always misunderstood. What happened? Why they were always considered as a mugger, a rapist or worse? Is it just because they were black? I could figure out the anger of the writer and at the same time also a little bit frustrated because he couldn’t help. That’s why he wrote down the latter sentence “Black men trade tales like this all the time”. This made me want to ask a question: Who are the real victims at all? Are those who silly thought they were offended by the blacks? The answer is no! Both you and I know that the real victims are those innocent black people. They had been treated unfair for so long time! I hope it will not happen in our today’s life!
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I really agree with you opinion!
this story was definitely common stories. But not always!
thgings like episodes can always happen all around the people.
not just as black,
Heekyung.cho
I really agree with you opinion!
this story was definitely common stories. But not always!
thgings like episodes can always happen all around the people.
not just as black,
Heekyung.cho
Sad movies always make me cry (Leslie)
This article makes me cry, too. It contains so much sorrow, pain, helplessness, struggle. For a guy who is as big and strong as the author is, it is so sad that he could do nothing to bring changes but to carefully look for some escaping ways to remain a timid survivor.
I am wondering how long he can survive.
It's good that you point out the double negation in that quoted sentence. And you also proposed a thought-provoking question: who is actually the real victim? When what people can bring to each other is just fear, who can lead a happy life with fear? Then all the people are victims.
From your description, we can see that how innnocent black people are. Of course,some black people did some bad things to hurt others, but so did white people. Is the reason just because of their apperance , which is definitely unfair.
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