Shocking Techniques In Videotape By Don Delillo

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In Videotape by Don DeLillo, we are immediately drawn into a story of a man who is obviously fascinated by shocking footage on the news broadcast. The clip that is being shown repeatedly revolves around a young child with a video camera and the unfamiliar person in the car behind her. As she is riding in the backseat of the family car, she simply begins taping the man in the Dodge that is driving right behind them. The man waves as the girl continues to tape. Then, apparently out of nowhere, the man has been shot in the head by an unknown murderer known as, “The Highway Killer.” The girl continued to tape as the man’s life unpredictably ended. The man that is examining the footage at his house cannot seem to describe himself away from it as