Summary Of Freedom Writer's By Roxane Gay

RAA Rough Draft The assurance of safety is always appreciated whether it’s at home, school, or public places. There are always uncertainties whether a specific place can be considered as safe. In an article written by Roxane Gay, she argues the difficulty of finding a space that can be confidently labeled as safe. To strengthen her argument, she uses examples of her personal experience in relation to safety, recent events in campuses, the feministic output of safe space within the LGBT community, and even within her own classroom. In relation to strengthen her outlook of the argument, the movie Freedom Writer’s can be used in comparison. The need of a safe environment is always desired. Gay has a strong opinionated view on space. Commentating from her personal experience, Gay mentions “I HAVE been searching for …show more content…
She discreetly uses pathos to gain the attention of the issue she has with safe space. From the start, she presents her personal experience of being brutally assaulted at a young age. She emphasizes how safe space is important to her because of what she experienced. In a sense, the assault traumatized her. For that she has strong conceptions on what safe space should be. In some sense, her personal experience could relate to the audience who may experienced the same situation or somewhat similar. In Freedom Writer’s, the movie was a roller coaster of emotions. Pathos was strongly presented throughout the movie. In relation to Gay’s argument of safe space, it can be shown through specific scenes of the students. Eva Benitez, one of the students who is wrongly discriminated, hides in English class to escape from the dangers she faced at home. Eva’s whole journey as her father involved in a murder case and her betraying her father by confessing his wrong doings creates the emotion of her struggles and follows her relief as she finds haven within the