“HELP HIM UP!”: A WITNESS’S ACCOUNT OF PANIC ON A SUBWAY PLATFORM

PART B: Which detail from the text best supports the answer to Part A?

A
“It was Saturday afternoon, April 29. Everyone who came down the stairs to the train platform saw him, myself included, and everyone did the same thing. Watched him.” ( Paragraph 3)
B
“It is a very specific New York City preoccupation and plotline, a horror and a drama that grips the imagination and lays down a gut check.” ( Paragraph 8)
C
“He texted his girlfriend, ‘Guy fell so I had to jump on the tracks now I have a cut on my hand.’ He called his mother. Both were upset with him at first, ‘mad I jumped on the tracks in the first place,’ he said, but more thankful he was O. K.” ( Paragraph 32)
D
“Mr. Capuzzo said that before he jumped, he remembered an old public service announcement: ‘Twenty people are thinking someone else called about the gas leak.’” ( Paragraph 34)

You are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on one of the 4 prompts and what you have read and learned in this module. these are your options: 1. how do the events of "the white umbrella" teach the narrator a lesson about shame and acceptance? 2. what role does creativity play in "the bat-poet"? 3. how does the character of squeaky change over the course of "raymond's run"? 4. discuss the influences of older family members on the protagonists and speakers in the stories and poems of this unit. you are to write a five paragraph literary essay based on what you have read and learned in this module. your final submission should meet the following requirements. • submit completed pre-writing and outline documents. • write an essay that contains an introduction with hook and thesis statement, supporting paragraphs with evidence and at least one quotation, and a conclusion that restates the thesis and reviews main points. • use transitions appropriate to the pattern of organization. • use vocabulary to create tone and voice. • cite primary source (quotation). • submit completed revision checklist. • vary sentence structure. • create sentences with parallel structures. • use technology in the writing process.