A personal analysis of "Pearls Before Breakfast" by: Gene Weingarten

1. PEARLS BEFORE
BREAKFAST
Feature Writing Report
Nastassja Ramos

2. GENE WEINGARTEN
 Born: October 2, 1951 in New York
 Nationality: American
 Education: New York University
 Employer: Washington Post
 Pulitzer Prize: Awarded in 2008 for Feature Writing for Washington
Post “Pearls Before Breakfast”
 Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weingarten

3. Image from: http://wpmediaservices.com/mugshots/bigweingarten.jpg

4. PEARLS BEFORE
BREAKFAST
 The article is about “Internationally acclaimed Virtuoso” Joshua
Bell playing incognito at the Washington Metro.
 The Game: “In a Banal setting at an inconvenient time, would
beauty transcend?
 Weingarten, writes about what happened before, during and after
 $32.17 for playing for 43 minutes

5. JOSHUA BELL
 Born: December 9, 1967
 Education: Jacobs school of music,
Bloomington High School North
 Net Worth: 15 Million USD
 Awards: Avery Fisher Prize, Grammy Award
for Best Classical Crossover Album, Grammy Award for Best
Instrumental Soloist Performance

6. WRITING STYLE
 The writer begins by telling a story about what is happening to the
subject and describes the surroundings
 And then he describes the music and the feel of the scene as if
telling a bedtime story
 Then the writer talks to the readers and asks a question and then
inserts a anecdote and then gives a background of the story and then
he delves into talking about the main character

7. WRITING STYLE
 Supports his writing with anecdotes and interviews with experts
and even with Joshua Bell
 "Gene Weingarten is outrageously funny. I mean that literally: He
is guaranteed to outrage some readers. But the smart ones will
absolutely love him." -- Dave Barry

8.  Joshua Bell Picture taken from: http://www.joshuabell.com
 Joshua Bell info Taken from:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell
 and: www.therichest.org

9. DISCUSSION…
 “IF A GREAT MUSICIAN PLAYS GREAT MUSIC BUT NO
ONE HEARS... WAS HE REALLY ANY GOOD?”
• Pearls Before Breakfast by: Gene Weingarten 8/04/2007
 How would you have written the story? Would you have gone with
the same style?

10. REFERENCES
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gene_Weingarten
 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joshua_Bell
 http://www.joshuabell.com
 http://journalism.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=journalism&cdn=newsissues
&tm=34&f=10&su=p284.13.342.ip_p554.23.342.ip_&tt=2&bt=0&bts=0&zu=http%3A//www
.pulitzer.org/works/2008-Feature-Writing/
 : www.therichest.org
 http://www.wpmediaservices.com/weingarten.htm
 http://wpmediaservices.com/mugshots/bigweingarten.jpg