Baltimore Rhetorical Analysis

Baltimore: A Conversation “So there’s a voice inside you. Maybe just a whisper of a voice. That wants to try to do right and it’s frightening. It’s difficult. But it exists.” The Dean of the university in Kirsten Greenidge’s Baltimore gives the feelings I have all the time on the fourth of October showing. Overall, race issue is a key topic to the unification or division of this country. The premise of this production declares that ignorance leads to a demanding path of recovery. Regardless of being meant for humour, it could be taken as it is – a racist statement. To begin, Baltimore takes place in present day SU, Sudbury; dissimilar to the title. The dramatic structure of Baltimore is personally partial. To introduce the exposition, Shelby, portrayed by Bonner, and the Dean have a scheduled interview that was unprepared and so the Dean let her be and the story commences. Afterwards, Shelby and her acquaintance Lin converse about their livelihood of jobs and stress. The rising action derived between the interactions of Bryant and Fiona. Bryant, portrayed by Patterson, and Fiona, …show more content…
For instance, Fiona displays as though she cannot comprehend what she did wrong when she called Alyssa out for her afro, assuming that people mocking her own snowball hair during her youth was justification to make an unpleasant joke, even though it is apparent. Therefore, this inhibits the path of recovery in the relationship between Fiona and Alyssa. Another example is what is on Shelby’s mind. She does not understand why the Dean continuously pursues a discussion on racial issues. Evidently, she had ignored the topic for much of her life, as she “does not see colour”. This leads to a psychological meltdown at some point where she did not care for what the other student body did. Ignorance as ignoring that topic and the ongoing bouts between the students leads to difficulty to recovery as no solutions were attempted to be