First writing this essay, it wasn’t that difficult but the hardest part was choosing an essay prompt that has enough evidence in the novel. After I knew what I was going to write about, I picked the important moments in The Underground Railroad that the audience would easily remember because those moments captured the meaning of the novel as a whole. The Prompt that I wrote about is The Underground Railroad provides us with both historical and contemporary socio political critique that relates to current society today in the aspects of brutality, employment discrimination, and the living conditions in particular communities. For brutality I wrote on how during the time in which the novel was taken place, the late 1800s, is the time when bruality was exposed heavily towards the African-American enslaved people and how it relates to today’s society in police brutality. I provided information from both the text and outside sources that proves my thesis. For employment discrimination, there were many cases that were recorded for many races other than white that experienced this and nothing was done about it. Most times they would just dismiss the case with no investigation or questioning. Last but not least the living conditions. There are still many communities that still have this discrimination and there is nothing being done about it. For essay topic I used an Article that we read and discussed in class regarding this issue and I felt like it completely fit my essay and I was able to find evidence from the novel to support this easily. Finding the perfect evidence in the novel was hard due to having so much supporting evidence was finding the perfect evidence to make my thesis strong took a lot of time finding. I believe this is one of my favorite essays writing because The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead gave me an eye opener. Before when I hear about slavery I would get sad but, not truly feel the emotion content behind it. The way Whitehead put slavery in this novel, he uses a narrative direction as in telling a story with characters and showed his audience how its your own people that will turn on you also. With this narrative aspect, I genuinely felt the pain and frustration of the enslaved. This novel also helped me better understand what I was learning throughout this entire FIQWS course because everything else we read or listened to, prepared us to reading this novel without reacting deeply compared to someone that just randomly read the novel. Someone who has just randomly read the book would get really frustrated because of the explicit content and the other characters  in the novel. The novel The Underground Railroad is a book that I would recommend to anyone to read for an eye opener of the enslaved era.