Brooklyn Gang

Brooklyn Gang

Since the assignment was to read this article and make the blog post good, I am slightly confused on what to do. But, I am going to write on how this article, The Brooklyn Gang, is a pretty good inquiry essay despite its extreme bias. One of the reasons I think this article provides a great example of an inquiry essay is because while it is an informative article, it seems more like a story you would read in a book. The beginning of the article helps to set the scene, grab the attention of the reader, but not reveal too much about the article. As the article continues, the story begins to unfold and instead of the author just writing descriptively about the event, he acts more like a narrator. He does this by writing in first person, and allowing the reader to keep up with what is happening by giving a play by play description of what he sees. The author pays attention to each little detail, like the weather or street names, which allows the reader to put themselves in the author’s shoes. These methods the author uses make the story very easy to read, similar to a novel maybe, but it’s actually a very accurate representation to what the Occupy Portland movement was really going through. The only real problem I have with this article is that it is extremely one-sided. The author speaks of his hatred towards republicans, which is totally fine, but when he tells the reader about the interaction between the policeman and frail boy, the author is seemingly sympathetic towards the boy, but says nothing about what the policeman may be going through. If he had done that, the inquiry article, in my eyes, would’ve been an even more accurate representation of what was really happening in that time rather than just what one side of the battle.