In this blog, I am going to discuss some of the important points about the significance of newspapers in Handover; Or the Persecution of the Lowly (Pages 11-17) and the “Crowds”.
Newspaper was considered as an instrument to controls people’s mind. It was a social technology tool and a powerful media that manipulated people’s opinions and behaviors by delivering different kinds of ideologies. The chapter of the Wilmington Record stated that “it has the power for evil and for good”. Everything depends on who was the newspaper attacking. It was good for whites or black if it was supporting one these groups. Otherwise, it was be evil. American wasn’t united, blacks and whites has different thoughts. The passage promotes the interests of black Americans. According to the chapter in page 16, “The negro, like the white man, likes to read something good of himself”. The editor told the reality of the racial discrimination, but white citizens weren't happy with the article. White community disagreed about this message that support African Americans. They feared about the Negro Domination, one of their most popular excuses that never existed. There was also a connection between the newspapers and presentation that the professor gave in class about “The Race Riot: the profiteers, In this case newspapers strongly attacked African Americans with symbolic violence, calling them black monsters.
In the other hand, the final part of the film “The Day of the Locust” was very tragic and dramatic. It’s not just fiction, but it is a natural behavior that happens in real life. For a single crime, a whole crowed got crazy fighting, looting, destroying and killing each other. In comparison with to the act of violence in the film, I have seen similar cases in the news, where a burglar is captured by someone, and instead of calling the police, the whole neighborhood acts like animals, lynching the criminal to his dead and unconsciously, making justice for themselves. Crowd is a symbol of violence and destruction and people love that. A lot of heads thinking differently in a turbulent atmosphere, creates violence if there is no control. Some people make violence because of ignorance, they enjoy it creating chaos or for their ideologies.
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