summary essay combined with personal story
... Throughout Swartz’ essay, she gives detailed examples of why people do or don’t help beggars. The purpose of this essay is to show that beggars are treated with two different extremes, from being granted with the utmost respect to being completely ignored. Schwartz begins her essay with telling a family legend. ... After reading Schwartz’ essay, I remembered an experience that I once had with a beggar. ... I believe if Schwartz were to classify me in her essay, I would be some where close to the beginning of the alphabet.