<span style=”font-family: ‘Times New Roman’,serif;”>In the story from the New York Times, Cedric Sturdevant is the main character who is going around from the small community he lives in to other states for the sole reason in helping people fight the battle of having HIV/AODS. In the South, where he lives, are the most amount of people with HIV. While many in the community don’t even know they have it or not, the one’s who do have it are most affected because they just realized they have it and have no clear guidance. Back in 2005 when he realized he had HIV, he knew nothing about it, had no one to vent or pour out his feelings and emotions to, and nor did he have his partner anymore because she had died the following year. Now that Sturdevant</span> knows the situation of all these other people in and outside of his community, he made it his goal to reach out to every single person, hand them their package and talk to them so they know that they are not alone and that this war can be fought. The author Linda Villarosa gives a transparent view of this message she is trying to send out to the world using Sturdevant’s story to better grasp how lethal this situation is. Villarosa is mainly spreading the message on the prevention of the spread of HIV and AIDS within the gay, bisexual, black male community. This epidemic is something many are uneducated about and about 50% of young black, bisexual men have HIV without knowing. In this article, the language is super relatable to modern day speech and allows the readers to fluently comprehend and legitimately feel sympathetic while reading about the situation. Villarosa uses a tone that constantly reminds the readers of how serious this epidemic is in many places. I honestly feel very bad for these folks because I can’t imagine how they must be living in a community where after every couple of houses, the windows were broken, homes were abandoned, and people were at the utmost low point in their life. Thankfully, growing up having to go to the hospital to be treated and getting educated is truly a blessing and Sturdevant is trying his best to educate and aid those around him with this disease.
