Walking While Black Analysis

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Education can’t Prove Innocence
After being arrested for a crime that he didn’t commit Bryonn Bain write an essay about the black Bill of Rights. In his essay, “Walking While Black,” Bryonn Bain unsuccessfully uses his credibility in an illogical manner to prove to his audience that he was innocent. Bain has many years of legal background to help prove his point of legal knowledge to his two different audiences, his critical perspectives on the law class at Harvard Law and my English 105 class at Iowa State University. He over emphasizes his status of law student to try to prove his point of innocence.
After he and his family had been taken to the police station, Bryonn Bain describes an incident with an officer who mocks Bain’s status of being a Harvard student. In this part of the essay Bain uses pathos, by connecting to his audience through his description of his feelings. This is a good way of putting the audience in Bain’s shoes for a moment by describing his mother. The two audiences of Bain’s essay would know how it feels to let a mother down.
Bain’s two different audiences for his paper are his Harvard Law class and my English 105 class. This essay’s first or original audience was his “critical perspectives on the law” class at Harvard. This audience would be quite interested in this essay because it is an essay that looks at New York’s law system. Many of the details that are missing in the essay would not need to be included since his original audience would understand the story without the little details such as the Miranda case and the socioeconomic status of the neighborhood where the crime took place. But Bain’s has a second audience, this audience in my English 105 class. The English 105 class is a diverse class. There are many different cultures and backgrounds with this audience. Half of the class is white young adults while the other half is foreign young adults. The ...