Summary Of Matt Richtel's 'Deadly Wandering'

In his book “The Deadly Wandering” Matt Richtel tells the true story of a young Mormon man by the name of Reggie Shaw, who causes a terrible accident that leaves two scientists dead in 2006. The sad part about this story/book is that the accident was actually caused by Reggie texting and driving. Richtel also mentions some scientific studies on human attention while driving. In Chapter nineteen, Richtel talks about Reggie, after the accident had already happened. He mentions that his former high school basketball coach, let him take over the team, so he could get his head clear. Even then Reggie would sometimes space out and start thinking about the terrible accident. Reggie also stars dating again, while at the same time, a detective by the name of Singleton is still working …show more content…
He writes, “Reggie had been texting the entire way. He had been texting when he caused the accident” (Singleton, 164). He lets the reader know what was the cause of the accident. He wants the audience to feel bad about what happens when you text and drive at the same time. He evokes the emotion of being bad to promote a sense of emergency between his reader. When he tells the audience that the cause of the accident was because Reggie had been texting, he wants to let them know what could be the possible outcome if you’re irresponsible enough to be doing what he doesn’t people to be doing. He makes it sound like anyone who uses their phone and drives will cause and accident or be killed in one. This emotional appeal helps Richtel’s argument in a way that it motivates the reader to act. If the reader doesn’t do anything about it, something as terrible as what happened to Reggie could happen to them. Richte Introduces the reader to a sense of feeling bad so he could act up and stop such action before it is too