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"Black Men and Public Space"
Is Brent Staples' text fiction or nonfiction? How do you know? Provide 2-3 pieces of evidence from the text to support your answer. USE SIMPLE WORDS
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It is nonfiction — a personal essay (true story about the author).
Evidence:
1) The writer uses “I” and tells things that happened to him. For example, he describes his own feelings and actions after people reacted to him on the street.
2) He gives real incidents: a woman crosses to the other side of the street when she sees him and clutches her purse — he describes this happening to him more than once.
3) He talks about how those real experiences changed him (he began whistling to seem less threatening). The piece reflects on race and real life, not a made-up plot.
Evidence:
1) The writer uses “I” and tells things that happened to him. For example, he describes his own feelings and actions after people reacted to him on the street.
2) He gives real incidents: a woman crosses to the other side of the street when she sees him and clutches her purse — he describes this happening to him more than once.
3) He talks about how those real experiences changed him (he began whistling to seem less threatening). The piece reflects on race and real life, not a made-up plot.
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