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White Into Black By Martha Gellhorn Analysis

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The essay I read was “White into Black” by Martha Gellhorn. Her thesis, I believe is describing how bad of a location Haiti was. She writes, “Any Caribbean island would have suited: Haiti was a careless choice” (Gellhorn p. 69). Which led me to this conclusion. Another example that led me to believe this was her thesis, she describes in her essay how Haiti was not a good place to visit. She says “a taxi-driver recommended the grandest hotel by the sea. The walls where peeling, a juke box deafened, drunks abounded, and the rooms were sticky without dust” (Gellhorn p. 69). If this was the “grandest” hotel, I would hate to see the worse. She talks about how the place was filled with “discouragement”, “poor black citizens”, how it was a “loud” …show more content…

I found this essay to very vivid with her descriptions. She gets detailed throughout her essay. She starts describing the hotel and writes “a taxi-driver recommended the grandest hotel by the sea. The walls where peeling, a juke box deafened, drunks abounded, and the rooms were sticky without dust” (Gellhorn p. 69). Then we can imagine being in a hotel where the walls are peeling and drunks are hanging around. After that, she starts to explain the streets; “The streets of the city now looked like dust tracks, the black citizens wretchedly poor and glum” (Gellhorn p. 69). Then she sets out to describe the priest. She writes, “The priest, a bony fiery-eyed man in a cloak and trousers, crouched and cavorted, tracing magical signs on the dirt floor, but kept a calculating eye on the believers” (Gellhorn p. 70). The last of the three “patterns of illustrate” is exemplification. This is where you use examples throughout your novel, essay, writing, etc., to help support your views or opinions. Gellhorn uses this in her essay by giving us examples on what she discovered on her visit, how the place looked, how the people acted, and so on. There are five “Patterns that analyze”. These are, Process analysis, Division and classification, comparison and contrast, causal analysis/cause and effect, and finally definition. The first one I would like to discuss is process analysis. Throughout her story, she uses these patterns to help

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