Analysis Of Catherine Genovese By Martin Gansberg

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The significance of Martin Gansberg’s essay is to demonstrate to readers how cold our society has become, specifically to the point where we are no longer the community that once used to protect each other. Therefore, the author, in my opinion, wishes for us all to realize this and change for the better. Plus, I believe Martin Gansberg would want readers to contemplate about what expectations they would have for their neighbors if, god forbid, they were ever in the same position as Catherine Genovese was in.
The most obvious technique that the author applied to his entry is the inclusion of a true crime event, however, he targeted the event from a different angel than a regular crime would’ve been looked at. Martin Gansberg planted all

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