TOW #5 "Blink" Malcolm Gladwell

In the second part of the book Blink, written by Malcolm Gladwell the author explains the setbacks of quickly judging people as well as how one can use their ear to judge a piece of music. In the second half of the book Malcolm Gladwell explains to his audience that even with the ability to look at a person and almost nearly correctly judge them there are set backs. He uses the example an event that happened in the Bronx, New York. A man named Diallo was walking home from a friend’s house in a bad neighborhood in the Bronx. He had just come to visit, and was now leaving to go home. An undercover police group sees Diallo standing in the street alone near a door. The three officers, Boss, Carroll and McMellon, see the man and jump out of their car. At midnight Diallo sees three large white men walk up to him with firearms holstered in a bad neighborhood, while the officers see a shady looking man in a bad neighborhood seeming to go into the house and rob the place. Diallo begins to run away from the men, the officers chase after him, Diallo reaches for his wallet hoping to stop the people from chasing him, but the officers sees Diallo reach for a black object from his pocket and open fire killing an innocent man. The author is trying to reach to a large group of people in his book and he uses examples that people would see in the news and analyzes them to fit the author’s argument. The purpose for writing this book would be to educate the masses about a contrasting viewpoint that Malcolm Gladwell set up in the beginning of the book. Mr. Gladwell wants to be seen as an objective author who is merely presenting facts and analyzing events that pertained to his main idea. I believe that Malcolm Gladwell is able to effectively establish the idea of how it can be a good thing to quickly judge a person, and how it is a bad thing to judge a person. Through the use of everyday examples and careful analyzation Malcolm Gladwell establish his point on “The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”.