The article name is “How to stay alive while being black.” It is written by Touré on Monday 2 April 2012. It is an advising report how Afro-American following the incident of the 17-year-old teenager, Trayvon Martin. The genre of the text might be a comment and a feature article from the author comes with arguments and his opinion how to survive. The themes in the article are all about racism, survival, advice and so on. The reason why these topics are relevant to the text is, that the article is advising how to stay alive, but also about racism since the author is telling how young Afro-American should avoid provocation for the police officers and allow the racism when it happens. The overall topic must be racism and advising, well the …show more content…
The structure of the text is built up by simple steps. Touré is, first of all, trying to encourage for example “There is nothing wrong about you. You’re amazing....” exactly right here the author wants to cheer people up (mental). Later on, Touré comes with how people should act in some dangerous situations like allowing some racism and always run away and call the police. Touré is somehow using rhetoric. When Touré uses Trayvon as an example, everybody and in particular, Afro-American will get some emotions. They would fall in somehow sympathy for him and the family, but in fact, Touré is also getting some credits for taking Trayvon as an example. It is letting the readers fell, that Touré knows what he is talking about and make him trustworthy. The author also mentions some logic things and facts. He is telling when the best chance to run away if there are any possibilities of a possible conflict escalation. He is also mentioned what racism is. It is calling in rhetoric “pathos, ethos and logos.” The intention of the article is informing and persuade how people should do in these kinds of situations. When he is convincing trying to convince us, that everybody can do better than that. He is also saying in the last page “They may be behaving unjustly, but their lives aren’t in danger. Yours is. If you survive, you will be able to tell your lawyer what happened….” no