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Raquel Hudson

Derrick Brown

English 1020 LD-07

February 26, 2022

“Justice for CJ”

The protagonist is Captain Richard Davenport, who is a black male military officer and also a

lawyer who was sent by Washington, DC to investigate a murder case in Fort Veal, Louisiona. After a

black Sergant is murder Vernon Waters, Captain Davenport is assigned to solve this murder. Who killed

Sergeant Waters? Captain Davenport is wondering if it’s two white officers or the Ku Klux Klan. Captain

Davenport job is to find who murdered Waters.

The murder is first blamed on the Ku Klux Klan and two white officers. The first man that is

Interviewed is Private Wilkie. Wilkie was Waters' sidekick. They are always together. Wilkie tells

Davenport about the blacks baseball team and how they beat the white soldiers at the baseball. Wilkie

tells Davenport and talks about CJ who is also one of the black soldiers, who was good at baseball but

can sing and play the guitar as well. Waters didn’t care too much about CJ; he just pretended to like CJ.

For example Waters had Wilkie to plant a gun under CJ pillow, so he can get his three stripes back that

he lost.

Derrick Brown

How does this body paragraph support your point/thesis you made in your thesis statemenr?

Derrick Brown

In Addition you need to also share the When & Where this play/film takes place. Then you share the information about the murder and then after providing that basic information to your readers...you then shift into the thesis statement. When you introduce the characters, provide some background (which you have done) you must make sure your Thesis statement is clear and follows the goal of this essay which is to make a clear point about the murder. Instead of focusing on Davenport;s worries, you need to make it clear in your thesis about why Davenport is the protagonist and why Sgt. Waters (currently dead). You must make the goal of this essay clear. Either you are showing the reader who the bad guy is or who the protagonist is. Your goal is to select one character and explain why one is the protagonist or one is the antagonist and the rest of the essay must follow that direction in your thesis statement, which closes out the introduction and you need to make sure you have chosen three specific pieces of supporting evidence that will build your three body paragraphs that will support your decision

Derrick Brown

Raquel, This introduction needs some structuring and some order. Remember that the introduction consists of you providing some basic information about the play/film; you need to remember to share the title of the play/film and the name of the person who wrote the play/film. In this case "A Soldier's Story" written by playwright Charles Fuller...

Derrick Brown

Good heading

Derrick Brown

Correct heading

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The next soldier to be interviewed is Peterson. Another black soldier told Davenport that he and

Waters had a one on one fight, and Waters beat him. Peterson didn’t see eye to eye anyway. Peterson

challenged Waters and they began to fight. While in the interview with Peterson, Taylor who is the white

officer who already told Davenport that he will get no respect from no one because he is black man.

Taylor stopped the investigation because he said two white officers beat Waters. Of course Davenport

accuses Taylor for tryng to cover up a black mans murder.

Davenport has his clues and notes on all the soldiers. Now he can narrow down and try and

figure out who was last seen with Waters the day of the murder. Even though Waters is the one who

told Wilkie to plant that gun under CJ's pillow. Cj didn’t kill him over that. Cj ended up in jail and

committed suicide. Peterson and Small were on guard duty the night of Waters murder. Davenport

interrogates Small. Small of course confesses Peterson killing Waters as revenge for CJ death, and to

get justice for CJ.

Soldiers are one of the greatest assets of the country. A soldier's job is one of the toughest things to

do in the world. Many lacks viewed World War II as a white man’s war, but in Waters view it was a

chance for blacks to prosper. One of the reasons why he was so hard on his men and wanted them to

do it a whites man's way. Racism still exists and will never go away, but trust me we came a long way!

Derrick Brown

remember all three body paragraphs are explaining or providing eveidience to show the reader, WHO is the ptotagonist, WHAT do they do and WHY, specificallyto prove your argument.

Derrick Brown

This looks like you trying to provide correct in-text citations without doing it properly.

Derrick Brown

While you dids great job naming these characters make sure you set up these three body paragraphs in the particular order you introduced them in the intro.

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