In the short story “Trapped”, the author uses the dialogue between the characters to illustrate a situation of racial profiling. According to the Oxford Dictionary, racial profiling is : “the use of race or ethnicity as grounds for suspecting someone of having committed an offense”. In this case, the police officer asks them to pull over when he sees that an African American man is driving the vehicle. He then proceeds to ask many vague questions as if he suspects Lance of having committed some kind of crime based solely on his race. For example, he asks “You been drinking ?” (Raebeck 107)…