Incident Analysis Incident By Nathasha Trethwey - 929 Words

â€Å"It is easy to hate and it is difficult to love. This is how the whole scheme of things works. All good things are difficult to achieve; and bad things are very easy to get†- Confucius. In â€Å"Incident† written by Nathasha Trethwey the speaker conveys a frightening experience she has with the hate group the Ku Klux Klan into an anecdote that is able to cause change. Upon this reading this essay the reader doesn t feel that the speaker is encouraging hate or revenge for the injustices bestowed on her. Rather, she is promoting peace and not attempting to further fuel the flame. Trethewey uses persona, tone and irony to depict the effect racial discrimination during an age where hate crimes were a frequent occurrence. Trethewey demonstrates the speaker with a serene and courageous persona. The scene described by the speaker is actually quite disturbing, however the way the speaker conveys it does not portray it that way. As the speaker recalls that night â€Å"We tell the story each year†(1,21) the reader becomes more and more intrigued. With the repetition of this line during the first and the last line, the reader assumes that the speaker is telling her story to others. Trethewey relates to speaker in her story because they both are African American and know what it is like to be perceived as inferior. As we can recall from history, hate crimes that occurred during the civil rights era were monstrous and appalling. Horrible acts like lynching, church burning, and anti-black