Genre
Non-fiction
Setting and Context
Set in USA and written in the context of Covid-19 and its challenges to black American Families
Narrator and Point of View
First-person narrative
Tone and Mood
Enlightening, horrendous, depressing, distressing
Protagonist and Antagonist
The narrator is the protagonist.
Major Conflict
There is a conflict between black Americans and the whites concerning the Covid-19 situation in America.
Climax
The climax comes when black Americans protest the killing of George Floyd which represents the mistreatment of black people and the unequal treatment in the handling of the Covid-19 situation.
Foreshadowing
The segregation of the blacks during the Covid-19 pandemic is foreshadowed by racism and the unequal treatment of black people in America.
Understatement
The power of George Floyd's protest 'I Can't Breathe' was underrated by the government, but it attracted the whole world's attention.
Allusions
The story alludes to the challenges the black people in America went through during the coronavirus pandemic.
Imagery
The deteriorating condition of the narrator's father due to the Covid-19 situation is described to help readers see how black people were neglected during the pandemic and the difficulties they had to endure as they tried to recover.
Paradox
The main paradox is that the government underestimated the power of George Floyd's protests, which later attracted the whole world's attention.
Parallelism
There is parallelism between racism and the mistreatment of black people during the corona epidemic.
Metonymy and Synecdoche
N/A
Personification
Covid-19 is incarnated as brutal.
