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the book i have to find the answer from it is blackboy by richard wright

2006-10-30 16:26:11 · 1 answers · asked by MOHAMMED S 1 in Arts & Humanities Books & Authors

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I see nobody has answered your question so I'll try to help you.
Even though I've never read the book (hopefully you have!) maybe this will help you answer the question for yourself:

1. A five year old child was struck and killed by a car today at the corner of 5th Street and Main.
Think about this statement. It just gives facts. It does not judge the child, the driver, or anything about the situation. It just says what happened. It makes no value judgement.

Now think about the NEXT statement about the same event:
2. Another lazy, drugged out welfare mom must have been ignoring her child, because a five year old was hit by a car and killed down by the public housing projects today.

THIS statement makes a value judgment. It assumes the child was unsupervised, it assumes the mother had a drug problem, and it does not provide any facts to back up these assumptions. The statement makes a judgment about the child's mother being at fault, when the fact is, I don't know if the mother was on drugs, we don't know if the kid was crossing with five other older kids and tripped on his shoelaces and fell, we don't know if he was crossing the street with his mother when a speeder ran the light and hit him and missed the mother...
This statement just makes a value judgment about the situation rather than breaking down all the facts and letting YOU decide who's fault it is that a five year old has unfortunately been killed.

Hope this helps... Good Luck Kiddo!

2006-11-02 15:12:23 · answer #1 · answered by Auntie M 2 · 0 0

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