Short Takes - Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing

1.      The writer uses a personal narrative to give the readers a more specific situation to relate her feelings. In paragraph 3, the writer generalizes that her outrage became kind of fuel which drives her straight to the civil rights movement and changes her life for good.

2.      In paragraph 1, the writer tells the readers that her opinion about outrage. From paragraph 2 to 3, she tells a life story that occurred when she was seventeen years old and its meaning and influence in her life. From paragraph 4 to 6, she shares some of her working experiences and feelings about this job. In the last paragraph, she examines the negative and positive aspects of outrage. 

3.      When I think of outrage, the first word appears in mind was furious. According to the online Cambridge Dictionaries, the definition of outrage is “a feeling of anger and shock” or “a shocking, morally unacceptable and usually violent action.”

4.      I think her points are very believable to me. Because she clearly describes how outrage change her as a person and her whole life.  

5.      I think the opening sentence is the essay’s thesis because the writer tells the readers that outrage sometimes can be turned into propellant as well as power to accomplish something.