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Rowan Cheer

May 30, 2018

Professor Batty

In Cecilia Munoz writing she describes many things that bring her anger; All of which

have to do with racial injustice and the issues people who try desperately to migrate to this

country face. She claims it was this anger that prompted her to go into a field where she felt she

could make a positive change. Yet it is from personal experience that I know this is not the case.

The initial even when her friend had made a remark in saying “he told me that he thought

the U.S. might someday go to war somewhere in Latin america. He told me that if it happens he

believes my parents belong in an internment camp like Japanese-Americans in World War II”.

Ignoring the false equivalency and lack of understanding of historical context, she found this

statement outrageous.

She felt his claim was unfair due to what she states that he “Knew how American we

are”. From then on she devoted her life to immigration reform something that many considered

positive or negative depending on your political standing.

Though the author of this piece turned her anger into a driving force for what she believes

to be good many more times it can lead to negative outcomes. Anger and indeed hate , much of

the time what hate stems from, ore very much negative emotion, those lead to negative

outcomes. For example, a man by he name of Elliot Rodger had an exorbitant amount of anger

toward all women. He wrote a manifesto that described these feelings in great detail, and also

described a plan to a large quantity of of women in an effort to ‘exact his revenge’ on them for

rejecting him. He may not have gone through with the aforementioned plan, but his actions still

resulted in the death of several people . Anger makes us feel lonely and can cause us to lash out
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at others in an attempt to make feel as we do. I and many others have done this, and it seldom

ends well.

At one point, almost ten years ago was when I was showed signs of anger issues during

school. I forgot what had agitated me so much, but my friend at the time had tried to console me.

My response to him was a punch to the gut and many insulting words and the stormed off.

Regretting my actions I still try to apologise for what happened but he has been ignoring me

since then. I lost a good friend over something trite and petty, all because I was angry.

To say that anger in impower you is a good thing. It means it cannot control you, and you

can turn it into something positive. That being what the author of this piece did. However, that

makes her in the minority. But it also makes the rest of use experts in how it can make life worse.