Matthew Teague The Raging Silence Analysis

“The Raging Silence” is a prime example for homicide in Philadelphia, and how it not only affects the victim’s families and friends, but also the entire community. The author of this article, Matthew Teague, explains the misfortune of gang and drug violence on innocent lives. Teague touches on the homicides of an innocent elementary student, Faheem Childs and an innocent teenager, Lamont Adams. Both of those boys were victims of gun violence in broad daylight. The criminals in North Philadelphia are fearless, and will stop at nothing to keep themselves safe. On a February morning in a neighborhood in North Philadelphia, everything was moving on as planned. Children were making their way to school, parents were dropping their kids …show more content…
I think that Teague did a good job in showing how the community stayed silent after the shooting by saying, “Horrible in its power to forever close a little boy’s eyes, and symbolic in its power to blind the parents, neighbors, passersby who saw its flight. Because it’s not the air, or the sun, or angles that make daylight go suddenly broad. It’s the witnesses.” (Teague) This statement refers to the bullet, and how it silences the victim forever, but also threatens the witness’s lives. Residents …show more content…
But as a problem-solution analysis, he did not offer solutions to each problem that was confronted. He offered a solution to the silence of the community by stating how the grandparents and witnesses of the neighborhood would join together and revolt against the criminals. But he did not offer any solution to the problem of drug and gang violence in North Philadelphia, he only talked about mourning the deaths of the victims. All together, this article was very informative and took a deeper look into the problems of homicide in