Rosa Parks Case

Dylan Shaw

Mrs. Salwierak

4th hour

January 28, 2014

The details chosen to tell Rosa Parks story on the bus are determined by the author's purpose and audience. While the bus episode is going she says that everyone was talking in low tones in her autobiography letting them know she was the awe of the crowd. In Rosa Parks by Douglas Brinkley when she starts becoming the center of attention. She starts thinking of her grandpa sitting with a shotgun in his lap muttering words from famous abolitionist John Brown while he watched for the KKK. In the childrens book by Nikki Giovanni she starts thinking a court case. 1954 Brown v. Board of Education where the court ruled it was not fair to have separate schooling. She also notices many people getting off and others staying on to support her while some wanted her arrested. The authors all have different details because they're meant for different audiences and have different purposes.

In her autobiography she is informing us of her account and trying to show the cause and effect of what happened that day. She talks about how everyone is talking in very low tones letting her know she is the awe of the crowd. This is a description of what happened and less of what she thought. She let the reader know that at that moment the bus went quieter. Not many people talked while she was waiting to be arrested for not giving up her seat to a white man. The effect was how everyone started talking about her in her very hush tones. This what she remembers during those events.

In the book by Douglas Brinkley his audience is teenagers mostly due to the fact that it's in a freshman English textbook. She starts thinking of her grandpa who use to sit on the back porch with a shotgun on his muttering words from famous abolitionist John Brown while watching for the KKK.