Mob Mentality

My understanding of cultural and contextual considerations of T.E.H.O. was deepened through the interactive oral. In the Interactive Oral we discussed the how the town knew about the murder and stayed quiet because of the mob mentality. A student brought up the connection between the mob mentality and the internet today, tying both to safety in numbers. This brought up the idea of how powerful the mafia is having this mob mentality over the majority of the people. Furthering on, the group discussed how the internet and the mafia both create this Mob mentality. One person brought up a video of how boys, not men, were throwing out rape threats to a woman through the internet. This was followed by a discussion on the false confidence and disconnection the internet creates. The internet creates a disconnection between people creating a false confidence that makes people act as if they were alone in the locker room, except it is being displayed to the world. The power of the mafia and the internet are so great it creates this barrier which in to T.E.H.O silences the town and today gives people false confidence to say rude and totally
In the discussion we talked about how one girl in the book gets beat by her family for the mere idea that she was cheating. This was paired with the club chapter in the book where the men talk ill of women and wanting to be with a recently widowed lady. The discussion focused on how hypocritical the cultural of this area is. The realization came that the rude talking was locker room talk, speech that would only be acceptable in private not public. This helped me connect to the idea of a front where one acts nice and behind closed doors think and says their true thoughts. One student mentioned that the people in T.E.H.O are friendly because the mafia has created this blanket of silence over the town, so the people are pretending not to notice and are keeping up with