How Does Staples Describe Himself
1- How does Staples describe himself? How is he sometimes seen by others?
Staples describe himself as a harmless and well educate man; however, because of his height and looks, Staples is often perceive by others as threat to their wellbeing.
2- How is the complication and paradox of these situations expressed by the last sentence about Staples’s whistling classical music being the “equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country?
The equivalent that Staples whistles while he walks on the street is to alert others that he is not a threat to them and that he come in peace; in the situation of the hikers that cowbells are used to alert the bears they also come in peace and mean harm.
3- Staples and Baldwin’s
Staples describe himself as a harmless and well educate man; however, because of his height and looks, Staples is often perceive by others as threat to their wellbeing.
2- How is the complication and paradox of these situations expressed by the last sentence about Staples’s whistling classical music being the “equivalent of the cowbell that hikers wear when they know they are in bear country?
The equivalent that Staples whistles while he walks on the street is to alert others that he is not a threat to them and that he come in peace; in the situation of the hikers that cowbells are used to alert the bears they also come in peace and mean harm.
3- Staples and Baldwin’s