Movie Hunger Essay Sociology

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Hello Anusuya, As always, I think you did a great job writing your paper! I wanted to elaborate on one aspect you mentioned in your paper that the protesters were also marching for their right of a trial. In an English course I took Summer we had to write a paper on the movie Hunger, which portrayed the struggle of the IRA fighters in the prison who were incarcerated without trial. In the movie the IRA fighters demanded to wear their own clothes as opposed to the clothes provided to them by the prison guards because they did not want to categorized as criminals, they protested through no wash-no slop to escape the regular beatings by the police officers in places like showers and bathrooms, and ultimately after all protests failed they went on a hunger strike sacrificing themselves one at a time to have their voices heard – meriting the status of martyrs. When …show more content…

Since young age the youth of Derry experienced and observed such atrocities how could they have moved on in his life without any kind of retaliation especially after the peaceful protests ended with spilled blood of innocent civilians. Another aspect that you mentioned was how you had a perceptional metamorphosis of governmental aggression after watching the movie. In the field of sociology all sociologists agree that the societal environment of an individual has a great influence on the perceptions that we develop and I think media plays a huge role in shaping our perceptions especially in our age and time when we get most of our information through media outlets. An example of this in the contemporary time is the controversy of Facebook and Cambridge Analytica that is said to have influenced the perspectives of the people in swing states in favor of one presidential candidate over another. Roberto González argues that it might be a