Oswalt's Attempt To Evoke Positive Change

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I believe that Oswalt was extremely successful in his attempt to evoke positive change by proving how close-minded it is to judge entire groups based upon the mistake of a single person. Within his essay, Oswalt mirrors the sentence structure of each stereotyping example, regardless of whether the issues pertains to women, Muslims, or rednecks, to show how prevalent negative judgments are in America, which makes the reader as well as myself feel the intense pity. Then, in order to heighten his success in maximizing the sympathy for minorities from readers, at the end of the essay, Oswalt repeats the harsh, profane adjective “fuckup” to vividly define the disgusting nature of minority judgments. From beginning to end, Oswalt is successful in