Getting Angry Can Be a Good Thing

Organization and Ideas

1. In paragraph 2, the writer's point is very clear. Because her family are Bolivian immigrants, her good friend once said that if the U.S. might have the war, her parents would belong in an internment camp just like the Japanese-Americans during World War II.  What her friend said was really offended her. After this event, Munoz generalizes the questions that the immigrants might encounter in paragraph 3. For example, there will always be doubt as to whether they really belong in this country, which is their home, and so on.

2. This essay's organization is both a bit of "chronological" and "particular to general". In paragraph 2 and 3, the author was 17 and she was propelled to join the civil rights movement. In paragraph 4, she started to work as an advocate. As to "particular to general", paragraph 1~3 was her personal experience. But from paragraph 4~7, she started to work as an advocate in the civil rights movement and started not only to talk about herself but also other people.

3. Outrage
    → Denotations：insult, injure, violate, trespass, infringe, mistreat, abuse, impair
    → Connotations：upset, furious, angry, offensive

4. She believes that outrage can be a good thing. She is deeply familiar with that hollow place that outrage carves in her soul. "Outrage" is just like a propellant to push her to help the immigrants and to support the civil rights movement. And all of these makes Munoz believe that she has the privilege of doing her small part to make things better.

5. I think the opening sentence, "I believe that a little outrage can take you a long way", is the essay's thesis and paragraph 2~7 are the supporting details. Because the opening sentence points out the topic,which is "outrage", the rest parts of the essay are surrounded by this spindle.