Summary Of Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn T Call The Police

if you witnessed someone getting stabbed repeatedly would you call the police? for these 38 people who lived in Queens their answer was no. In Martin Gansberg’s story “Thirty-Eight Who Saw Murder Didn't Call the Police” he uses pathos to describes how a woman named Kitty Genovese was stabbed three times in three separate attacks on her way home from work while Thirty-eight people watched and didn’t call the police. Gansberg shows how the assistant chief inspector is baffled not by the fact that it was a murder but by the fact that out of the Thirty-eight people who witnessed the murder only one person called the police but only after the murderer had time to stab Kitty Genovese flee the scene and come back three times within a 35-minute time period. Gansberg, throughout the story, subtly creates a what would you do scenario by making readers wish they were there to help because the story appeals to the readers emotions

He also states that after the murder had happened when someone called the police, the police showed up in two minutes further proving that if someone would have called the police during the first attack instead of just yelling out of their window at the man trying to kill Ms. Genovese she would still be