Random Acts Of Senseless Violence Rhetorical Analysis
Aspen Silverberg
3/15/11
Arber
English 214
Random Acts of Foreshadowing
In today’s modern American society, unemployment rates soar at an all time high. America faces a recession the likes of which haven’t been seen since the early 1930’s during a little stint known as the Great Depression. There are many who feel that the current recession will have a huge impact on the success of the future for America as a world super power, that the potential America once had to be an everlasting force is coming to a close. Jack Womack illustrates in the novel Random Acts of Senseless Violence the possible dystopian outcome America is headed for. Womack uses the novel as a platform to express what he feels is the impending fate of major cities …show more content…
Womack chooses to reflect on the state of future inner cities and current ones by exploring their impact on the youth, specifically an adolescent girl. As Lola begins to assimilate into the culture of the poverty stricken inner city, her narrative dialect changes too. What Womack does here is show that with the depreciation of society, so comes the loss of innocence and youth. In order to survive her new surroundings, Lola must abandon childhood naïveté for subsistence. The loss of structure within society in turn leads to the loss of purity and adolescence, replaced by adrenaline and fear. An interesting point is spotlighted in the novel as Lola continues to write in her diary. Faced with the possibility of homelessness and death, the characters come to realize that, in order to survive, they might need to have flexible morals and a loose representation of the humanity that used to be the norm in a society long gone. Humanity does not always translate into survival, as many subjects of novels past have discovered, and sometimes a person needs to stoop low just take make
3/15/11
Arber
English 214
Random Acts of Foreshadowing
In today’s modern American society, unemployment rates soar at an all time high. America faces a recession the likes of which haven’t been seen since the early 1930’s during a little stint known as the Great Depression. There are many who feel that the current recession will have a huge impact on the success of the future for America as a world super power, that the potential America once had to be an everlasting force is coming to a close. Jack Womack illustrates in the novel Random Acts of Senseless Violence the possible dystopian outcome America is headed for. Womack uses the novel as a platform to express what he feels is the impending fate of major cities …show more content…
Womack chooses to reflect on the state of future inner cities and current ones by exploring their impact on the youth, specifically an adolescent girl. As Lola begins to assimilate into the culture of the poverty stricken inner city, her narrative dialect changes too. What Womack does here is show that with the depreciation of society, so comes the loss of innocence and youth. In order to survive her new surroundings, Lola must abandon childhood naïveté for subsistence. The loss of structure within society in turn leads to the loss of purity and adolescence, replaced by adrenaline and fear. An interesting point is spotlighted in the novel as Lola continues to write in her diary. Faced with the possibility of homelessness and death, the characters come to realize that, in order to survive, they might need to have flexible morals and a loose representation of the humanity that used to be the norm in a society long gone. Humanity does not always translate into survival, as many subjects of novels past have discovered, and sometimes a person needs to stoop low just take make