CR Post #1

In “The Shocking Story of Approved Killing in Mississippi,” I used the follow the trail method and kept my eyes on the words man and boy throughout the text. Through out the passage, Emmett Till is described as if he were man. Witnesses claiming that he “looked like a man” as well as other descriptions that deemed him threatening and contrasting that with the description of Carolyn Bryant. However Emmett Till in reality was only a fourteen year old boy. His murderers and the press referred to him as a boy or child. Despite claiming him to be like a man, they never claim he is a man and that he would ever be more than a boy in their eyes. And yet they found this child threatening enough to kill him.