Read the excerpt from My Story. Here it was, half a century after the first segregation law, and there were 50,000 African Ameri
cans in Montgomery. More of us rode the buses than Caucasians did, because more whites could afford cars. It was very humiliating having to suffer the indignity of riding segregated buses twice a day, five days a week, to go downtown and work for white people. The first-person narration in this excerpt best helps readers understand facts about bus ridership.the anger black people felt.why segregation started.statistics about Montgomery.
The first-person narrative allowed the reader to better understand the feelings of the interlocutor.
In the example, it shows a sense of frustration, anger and injustice that black people felt in the context of racial segregation, when blacks were marginalized in a racist social hierarchy, which denied the equal participation of blacks.
Disappointed and upset are very similar. If your parents told you you were getting ice cream and then you didn’t, you’d be disappointed, which could also be described as upset.
