The book “David and Goliath” begins with the introduction, where Gladwell describes and, in a way, studies the legendary battle between David and Goliath who decided the war. between the Philistines and the Israelites. In the introduction, Gladwell explains this battle and delivers a message as in all the chapters of the book. The message here is that you should never judge someone too soon based on their appearance or anything else. This essay will analyze the introduction of the book. The book “They Say/I Say” is a book that was designed to help people with writing skills, and we can find Gladwell’s arguments in the book “They Say/I Say”. We will divide this article into three parts, the first being Gladwell describing the situation, telling the story, summarizing the story, and quoting people from it. Part two will be about Gladwell actually studying the story he tells about David and Goliath and explaining how underdogs can, in the end, find themselves victorious against people who "look" better. Finally, the third part will focus on Gladwell who will tie these two parts together, on the connection between history and his study to try to prove his point of view. Say no to plagiarism. Get a tailor-made essay on “Why Violent Video Games Should Not Be Banned”? Get an original essay In the introduction, Gladwell talks about the story of David and Goliath and how David, presented in the story as the underdog in this battle against Goliath, manages to defeat him and bring victory to the Israelites. The winner of this battle would bring the winner victory of the entire war. Gladwell describes this battle, how it took place, where, when and how. He summarizes this story and uses many quotes so that readers can eventually feel transported, as if he were there watching the battle. Gladwell's introduction, his way of writing is really linked to "They Say / I Say", the fact that to describe the "They Say" he uses, as in the TSIS the art of summarizing, the Art of quote to tell the story. . Throughout the introduction he uses quotes to immerse us even deeper into the story, he mainly quotes words from David and Goliath, they being the main actors, characters in this story, his first being in the first page of the introduction, when Goliath says: “Choose you a man and let him come down to me!” If he prevails in battle against me and strikes me, we will be your slaves. But if I prevail and destroy it, you will be our slaves and serve us. " Second, Gladwell uses the "I say" of "They say/I say" to study this story, to study how David was able to defeat Goliath even though he was "supposed to lose." He uses the "I say" to try to prove his point that underdogs can win, that underdogs are only underdogs because of the way people believe someone should act to win. The truth is that, as Gladwell says, underdogs are underdogs because they believe there is only one way to win a battle, match, etc., whereas, like David has proven, it is not always the biggest, the strongest, the tallest who wins. He explains in this introduction that even people who seem invincible have weaknesses and that they must be used to defeat someone. We can see that in the part where Gladwell explains that one of Goliath's weaknesses is that he can be sick, have poor vision: "'Am I a dog that you come at me with sticks?' David only had one stick. Goliath has seen two..