Police Brutality In A Lesson Before Dying
A Lesson Before Being Committed Guilty
In this untitled photograph, the author portrays that you're more likely to be a victim of police brutality because of the color of your skin. Joyner uses juxtaposition, and angle of the picture to convey that police can do anything they please and they are able to get away with it. Also, to convey that America is aware that most of the people who are being brutalized are black people. The author uses juxtaposition by placing the protesting man that is holding up the sign “ Guilty of only being black.” with him chained to a ‘Police Brutality’. This shows that even if there was no crime that took place they’d already be guilty because of having a certain skin color. This picture looks as though it took …show more content…
But, because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time and that the witnesses saw he was black, they assumed that he killed these men. This took place in the 40’s, and it was when slavery was still a thing, black people didn’t have much freedom, and racially profiling was not addressed but it was surely there. This untitled photo relates to this book because police brutality is portrayed to be going off the walls, just like how slavery was really off the walls, and how much black people were put in jail. Angry. This relates to my book on a serious level. This book “A Lesson Before dying” conflicts so much anger from me and so much emotion from me. When I think of how blacks were treated back in the 40’s and before that, even after that, I feel angry. No one should be chained up and be treated unfairly. No one should be stripped of their freedom. When I look at this photograph is afflicts the same amount of anger, seeing a man chained to a truck holding a sign that questions the system, it makes me emotionally unstable. These two things, “A Lesson Before Dying.”, And this untitled photo is related by being able to afflict the same
In this untitled photograph, the author portrays that you're more likely to be a victim of police brutality because of the color of your skin. Joyner uses juxtaposition, and angle of the picture to convey that police can do anything they please and they are able to get away with it. Also, to convey that America is aware that most of the people who are being brutalized are black people. The author uses juxtaposition by placing the protesting man that is holding up the sign “ Guilty of only being black.” with him chained to a ‘Police Brutality’. This shows that even if there was no crime that took place they’d already be guilty because of having a certain skin color. This picture looks as though it took …show more content…
But, because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time and that the witnesses saw he was black, they assumed that he killed these men. This took place in the 40’s, and it was when slavery was still a thing, black people didn’t have much freedom, and racially profiling was not addressed but it was surely there. This untitled photo relates to this book because police brutality is portrayed to be going off the walls, just like how slavery was really off the walls, and how much black people were put in jail. Angry. This relates to my book on a serious level. This book “A Lesson Before dying” conflicts so much anger from me and so much emotion from me. When I think of how blacks were treated back in the 40’s and before that, even after that, I feel angry. No one should be chained up and be treated unfairly. No one should be stripped of their freedom. When I look at this photograph is afflicts the same amount of anger, seeing a man chained to a truck holding a sign that questions the system, it makes me emotionally unstable. These two things, “A Lesson Before Dying.”, And this untitled photo is related by being able to afflict the same