What techniques does Amy Fox use in narrating this conflict story?

Amy Fox relies a lot on emotion and personal history to narrate her story. She uses a technique which is true to the narrative aspect of storytelling, but rarely allowed in journalism. That technique involves using oneself or “I” continuously throughout the story. In Fox’s case, she is implanting the best method in reflecting on her family’s potent struggle, because it is not just apart of New York’s history, but her family history as well.

Who are her sources?

Amy Fox’s living sources include: her mother(whose memory is limited on the subject), and Dr. Lee Lorch. Other people referenced include: Fox’s grandparents, the Hendrixes and Fredrick Ecker.

What kind of research did she do?

She interview her mother, and Dr. Lee Lorch, as well as do a fair share of research in the New York Public Library.

What is the arc of this conflict story and where is the nut graf?

The arc of the story is the racial discrimination that black tenant applicants felt when applying to live in Stuyvesant town post WWII and for several decades later. Many people that are currently living in Stuyvesant town are unaware of its troubled past and all the brave tenants such as the Foxs who stood up for the rights of others.

The nut graf is located in the second paragraph:

“It was hard to imagine my respectable grandma, Diana Miller, her waist-length hair piled on top of her head, or my grandpa, Leo, with his dignified vests, barricading themselves in those same buildings to avoid being put out on the street. But that is what happened in the winter of 1952, when my grandparents were among those white tenants who stood at the forefront of the battle to integrate the housing complex where they lived.”