Blog #5

ALIVE--
The structure of this essay started off vague as a person concerned with the serial killer in Baton Rouge and the feeling of elevated alertness that comes with that situation. The point of this essay is that you would think an ex-police officer would handle alertness very easily but this essay shows the author handled it like the average person. Also just being ALIVE makes a person vulnerable.

The structure is vague to specific. The essay started off with her knowing that a serial killer is lose in her home town(vague). Then with each paragraph the author gets so specific that she believes a man is staking her and this is because her sense of alertness is high.

Then it concludes with the sense that eventhough she was an ex-police officer, and her training she is still "vulnerable simply because I'm alive".

The center is alertness and the author is taken a life event and judging it as a whole.