Appeals week two

"Every man without a woman on his arm was being "worked" by the prostitutes. "Baby, wanna have some fun?" The pimps would sidle up close, stage whispering. "All kinds of women, jack-want a white woman?" And the hustlers were merchandising: "Hundred dollar ring, man, diamond; ninety-dollar watch, too-look at 'em. Take 'em both for twenty-five" (87). This is a logical appeal because it gives a good idea what life was like at night in Harlem, New York in the 1940's.

"There were many more reefer smokers around there, but these were a cheaper type, this was the worst of the ghetto, the poorest people, the ones who in every ghtto keep themselves narcotized to keep from having to face their miserable existance" (118). I am classifiying this as an emotional appeal. You feel rather bad for those who spend all their lives getting high so they don't have to face reality.

"Finally, right in her own house, with her family away, she threatened a Negro man who worked for her father that if he didn't take her she would swear he tried rape" (103). This is a logical appeal because until this point of the book, you only really see white men taking advantage of blacks. But this opens your eyes at how even white women would take advantage of their skin color to get what they want from blacks.