Our narrator is someone along the lines of the coalition person. He’s black and brought themselves up from those poor living conditions. Thus he can empathize with both sides of the subject. From his voice he still incorporates ebonics into his speech, while is still very well spoken.

The narrator is looking back at his life about five years after. Seeing how he went from the tunnels to coalition to help the homeless and beyond. Now he is looking back at his life, seeing what he did, and how things still are.

Sample:

yea, i lived in this fuckin hellhole before. Horrible living conditions, but at that time, i aint got no other choice. I had to tough it out in here for some time.

Lots of problem with people living down there. Nobody wants them down there, not even them. But what other choice to they have? That was the only place we could afford to call home.

to show people the plight that they are going through. Also, it would serve as a sort of motivating factor, hearing somebody who was in their position before pull themselves out of the hole.

Jentery: sorry, turns out i didn’t publish it last class….so here it is….