Open Response Sample
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The document discusses how experiences can change our perspectives and personalities. It describes an incident where Alton Fitzgerald White was detained by police at his apartment for no reason other than the color of his skin. This negatively affected White by changing his previously naïve view of the world as just to one recognizing the presence of racism and unfairness. After learning the police had actually detained the Hispanic men who committed the crime, White felt angry and upset about the realization of how many innocent black men are wrongly convicted. His experience demonstrated that the world is not always as one pictures it and that this incident made his life change permanently.
![Experiences are what make us who we are. These positive and negative happenings can change our opinions, our views on life, and even our personalities. In “Right Place, Wrong Face” by Alton Fitzgerald White, he has a run in with police officers that affects him negatively. He changes from seeing the world as a just and equal place to one filled with racism and even unfairness. <br />At first White is naïve to the real world. As a young man, White was “raised to believe that if [he] worked hard, was a good person, and always told the truth, the world would be [his] oyster.” Also, before this event, he thought the police were supposed to “serve and protect him.” However, after the police detain him for no other reason beside the color of his skin, White changes, becoming more jaded. Now, knowing that they had the Hispanic men who had committed the crime before arresting him, he feels angry and upset. He cries “silent tears of disappointment and injustice with the realization of how many innocent black men are convicted for no reason.” Instead of protected, he feels hunted—like a victim.<br />Alton Fitzgerald White was arrested at his own apartment in a violation of his rights. As he discovered, the world is not always how one pictures it. Sometimes an experience makes one realize, like White did, that “Life will never be the same.”<br />](https://image.slidesharecdn.com/experiencesarewhatmakeuswhoweare-101202203333-phpapp01/85/Open-Response-Sample-1-320.jpg)
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Open Response Sample
- 1. Experiences are what make us who we are. These positive and negative happenings can change our opinions, our views on life, and even our personalities. In “Right Place, Wrong Face” by Alton Fitzgerald White, he has a run in with police officers that affects him negatively. He changes from seeing the world as a just and equal place to one filled with racism and even unfairness. <br />At first White is naïve to the real world. As a young man, White was “raised to believe that if [he] worked hard, was a good person, and always told the truth, the world would be [his] oyster.” Also, before this event, he thought the police were supposed to “serve and protect him.” However, after the police detain him for no other reason beside the color of his skin, White changes, becoming more jaded. Now, knowing that they had the Hispanic men who had committed the crime before arresting him, he feels angry and upset. He cries “silent tears of disappointment and injustice with the realization of how many innocent black men are convicted for no reason.” Instead of protected, he feels hunted—like a victim.<br />Alton Fitzgerald White was arrested at his own apartment in a violation of his rights. As he discovered, the world is not always how one pictures it. Sometimes an experience makes one realize, like White did, that “Life will never be the same.”<br />