Writing on the Walls-Analyze Craft and Structure-Average Joes

Task: Complete the following. Don’t forget to make it visually appealing and organized!

1. At what point in “The Writing on the Wall” does Dungy state her central idea? Quote and then restate the idea in your own words.Dungy says the central idea in paragraph 6, when she says what some of the immigrants were going through. “If there were health concerns or irregularities with the paper, if the would be immigrants suffered the chinese exclusion act of 1882, they were sent to a detention center.” This means if anything went wrong they would be sent to a detention center and the author wanted to show how they were treated.
2. Identify four types of supporting details used in “The Writing on the Wall” (see notes above for types of supporting details). In 1-2 sentences, explain how each develops or refines the central idea. The story mentions the Chinese exclusion Act of 1882 which prohibited the immigration of all Chinese laborers. The reason this supports the story is because it gives us a reason why they were detained. There was a lot of racism in the time period of this story as it quotes “that the European men received comparably better treatment than asian men.” In the beginning of the story he gives us an example of what happened to most Chinese men when they arrived on Ellis Island showing that they were treated unfairly. The author says “The inmates often sigh” as if they were in a prison.