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Review Of John Updike's Review "It Was Sad" - Research Paper

Review Of John Updike's Review "It Was Sad"

I chose to review John Updike's Review “It Was Sad” from the October 14th issue
of “The New Yorker”. In the review, Updike examines several works concerning
the tragedy of the Titanic. He cites these works, I feel, to support his own
opinion about the event, and the different accounts of what really happened.
Updike spends some time disproving the belief that the upper class male
passengers heroically sacrificed their own seats on the lifeboats for those less
fortunate than themselves. He even points out, who he feels, are the real
heroes in this catastrophe. This shows he is writing from a moral perspective,
relating to these works.

He definitely takes the position of the lower ...

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and total people).

Updike also examines, in depth, the cultural effect of the sinking of the
Titanic. The thought that a ship declared unsinkable going down on its first
voyage was at the very least, shocking to the public. Who could look at
invention and progress in the same way? Updike seems to point out that the
public at this time is naive and quick to make idealistic judgments.

He also refers to the passengers moral standpoints, describing the decisions
they made not only during the ship's final hours but also during the whole trip.
To further prove his point, he gives the testimony included in one of the books,
concerning a Senator who heard the screaming of the suffering passengers but
made no attempt to rescue them. The people on that half filled life boat
refused to return for other, offering the excuse that they could have been
injured by the crowd. He gives other similar examples of such acts. It seems to
me that Updike not only wanted to review the ...

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Added: 10/1/2004 06:27:25 PM
Category: English
Type: Premium Paper
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