Description
Support claims with evidence from the text.
Use summary only to orient the reader so they can understand what you are talking about.
Explain Desmond’s choice to avoid the first person in this text, why did he make this choice, and how was it supposed to work for the reader?
Attempt one or more of the following:
Evaluate the rhetorical choice that Desmond made to avoid first person narration. Would he have been more persuasive if he’d put himself into the nonfiction he was writing (like Zadie Smith in the Smith family Christmas)? If so, why?
Incorporate your own experience at Matthew Desmond’s event and explain how his ethos differed in most of the book, in the About This Project section, and when you saw him live.