The Untold
Invisible Narratives are everywhere, no seriously, they are literally everywhere in our lives. Media is always a great example on how they want their audience to "think" a certain way about the person, situation, or thing that they believe is the best way to assume or judge.
¿Pero Por quĂ©? Why make chisme? Making up chisme leads to MORE chisme, and MORE chisme leads to MORE judgement.
It pretty funny though. When I come to think of it, this type of action reminds me of Mean Girls, you know, when Cady asked Regina to talk to Aaron about how awesome Cady is so he would be interested in her because Cady was a too shy to talk to him, but did the total opposite (duh). She told Aaron that Cady was a "homeschool jungle freak" that was obsessed with him and does voodoo magic so he would fall in love with her. Regina made Aaron think that Cady is a total werido by implanting a fake story on what Cady does when in reality she's just a girl that just happens to be born in Africa because her parents are zoologist and studied 16 years there so Cady was educated from them. But since Regina is THE popular girl in school, making her be above others, and Cady, the new girl not many know, Aaron had no reason to not believe the "mean girl"(see what I did there ;D)
Media is the Regina George in our world, showing/telling their audiences with one sided stories that may not even be 100% true. They mess around with the audiences way of thinking by using ethos, pathos, and logos! The word choices they use is also great factor.
Words are powerful. If you can shut people up, you can take away their power. These silent voices are the truths we don't hear. For example, lets talk about voting, it's coming up pretty soon and for many of us, including myself, it may be our very first time!
So, who are the ones that can vote? Citizens of the United States of 'MERICA of course, that are at least 18 years of age with no probation, and has never been convicted a felon. But what about the immigrants? And ex-felons that changed and are good people now? Don't they get a vote?
U.S Gov't: "Nope, sorry. They don't qualify to our standards."
WHY? Is my question. Immigrants make up a great big population here in the U.S and most of them have lived most of their lives here. Ex-felons, I believe, may have actually change their lives around and should have the opportunity to vote. Limiting them to the "people's right to vote" is totally unfair. They are PEOPLE, people that have live most of their lives here in the U.S. However, the government is the last one that has a say in this, right?, so they make them less important by not letting their voices to be heard. BUT, That's not true!
We, the people don't realize that we can change that, we are the majority, and the government are the minority. We can establish what we want, what we want to see, what we want to hear, ect. If you don't vote, you don't matter is what I think it means to vote.
Yet, we don't do anything because we believe we can't due to the amount power we believe the gov't gives us. There's an internalized hierarchy here that privileges certain people above others because of certain characteristics. But why should there be?
This is what creates Invisible Narratives all over the place. They should never be ignored. They should be heard by the audience, and the audience should be the ones that decide their own thoughts and feelings about them.
The information you talked about was really great. You really connected the movie of mean girl and us Regina as the invisible narrative. Also you had great examples of which part of the movie their were the invisible narrative. Also great example on the part were you were talking about the government. However places I believe were you need to improve on is your spelling, comma placement and run on sentences.
ReplyDeleteI love how you were able to connect such different things together in a way that wasn't confusing. I think you are really good at using the editorial structure.
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