In "Simply Stroll on By: A Dark Man Contemplates His Energy to Modify Open Space" Brent Staples examines his capacity to change others feelings with his essence. Staples clarifies his proposal all through the paper through stories of episodes throughout his life. He points of interest various records of individuals mixing up him for a criminal or mugger. He clarifies one experience with a youthful white lady, "on a forsook road, in a devastated segment of Chicago". She looks back at him and vanishes off into the dull. After the lady quickly escapes from Staples, he doesn't point the finger at her for her activities. In each of these circumstances however, he keeps up an understanding manner. He takes a gander at himself and sees how the lady