The Book Report - The Assignments - Part 4

The Harlem Ghetto
Chapter 4 (Pg. 51-64)
Summarization -
   As foreshadowed by the title, this chapter focus's on the issues with Harlem. The author shows an acknowledgement of the issue's with Harlem. The author uses this chapter to describe the unhealthy and simply inhumane living conditions of Harlem. He says that the condition's have not changed much since his childhood, which may be a taunt at authorities to clean it up. He also goes into grueling detail focusing on the lives of the citizen's living there, creating a mental scenery that was obviously implemented to fire up the readers into taking action for the cause.

Narratives & Details -
  The main details of this chapter can easily be found within' the first page alone, such as the phrase 'All of Harlem is pervaded by a sense of congestion, rather like the insistent, maddening, claustrophobic pounding in the skull that comes from trying to breathe in a very small room with all the windows shut.' I find this to be a clear example of 'Description', 'Internal Monologue' and maybe even a bit of 'Diction'. Another possible taunt at authorities, or expose to the public, is in the first paragraph of page 51 where the author writes 'Rents are 10 to 58 per cent higher than anywhere else in the city.' This could be read as an expose to the public as if the author was trying to get people to fix the issue current in Harlem.  I also find this statement to be a clear example of 'Exposition', as it presents the issue at hand in a clean and quick sentence, without actually going into detail.