The ineffectiveness of authority figures and trusted professionals within the community can be detrimental to the safety of its members. The passivity of the community and disregarding members’ safety is unacceptable. Garner’s text, Killing Daniel, manipulated readers to see a certain perspective about the issue of passivity of the community. Garner exposed the ignorant members within Daniel’s community who noticed his deficient health, “People who noticed the boy’s afflictions—monitored them, in some cases—included neighbours, tradesmen, social workers, teachers, friends, doctors, nurses, police, a photographer. Over these moths, Daniel was seen by twenty-one professionals.” Garner used enumeration to list the professionals who ignored Daniel
