Describe the purpose of chapter five. How does syntax play a role in establishing the purpose? How does it compare & contrast with other sections of the book?
The purpose of chapter five is to essentially summarize what The New Jim Crow is all about. She focuses on different aspects throughout the chapter through subheadings which end up showing the reader what the purpose of the book really is: to raise awareness about problems in the court system, how there are historical parallels, and how people of color and/or minorities are affected by the drug war and everything else. The syntax of chapter five plays a role by giving a broad topic, and then breaking it down into subtopics, which she does not do as much in other chapters of the book. These subtopics explain, but also compare and contrast the issues that the real Jim Crow has and the ones that she believes are a part of the "New Jim Crow". All of her paragraphs throughout her book contain statistics, explanations, and opinions regarding how the New Jim Crow is what it is today. In her chapter five, under the subtopics of "The Limits of an Analogy" and "Mapping Parallels" she uses bold text in order to introduce a new topic that she is going to explain, she does not do this with other parts of the book.
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