"An Ex-Cop's Remorse"
The New Yorker
October 24, 2016
"Its main roads are flanked by malnourished trees and low-rise buildings with faded awnings—storefront churches, transmission-repair shops, dollar stores. The year that Forcelli began working there, the precinct was the city’s most dangerous, with more murders than anywhere else in the five boroughs. Almost every day, officers were confronted with knifings, shootings, disembowelments, and “dump jobs”—bodies that showed up in parks or rivers."
The description really sets the scene, and along with the facts, it lets you know that this isn't the best place to be. Description lets the author control the readers mind, making them see what the author wants them to see. It allows the author to create a mood within their piece that is always in the back of the readers mind and it makes them feel immersed in the story.
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