37 People Who Saw Murder Didn T Call The Police By Martin Gansberg

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Reading Response
In the article “37 People Who Saw Murder Didn’t Call the Police” by Martin Gansberg tells the descriptive story of a woman who gets stabbed by an armed assailant multiple times. Being such a short story this has to be one of the most difficult essays I’ve ever had to analysis with only certain key tails to go off with. But the many emphasis details given tell the story with multiple views on how it had happened.
Beginning the story with a summary of what had happened by using language and descriptions to draw out emotions of the reader to better involve them. “The assailant had three chances to kill this woman during a thirty-five minute period”(115), Gansberg uses this to make the reader feel anger and question why no one

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