Analyse af 'The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong'

What does it mean to be evil? Evil is a word, which often is used in connection with war, massacre, murder, terror, torture ore violence. In time, there has been made many experiments trying to explain why evil is here, and why it is even possible. The discussion goes with a starting point between philosophe, psychology and religion, just like evil often makes a motive in art. In the article “The General Goes Zapping Charlie Cong” by Nicholas Tomalin from 1966, you see one how war can effect people and perhaps make them evil. The sender is Tomalin, and the receivers are the readers of the newspaper, Sunday Times.

New journalism is a direction within journalism, which began in USA around 1965, and whose first known performer was the righter Tom Wolfe. New journalism was especially used in feature-articles and is in general characterised by a literatured know stile and a widespread subjective, which primary purpose is to give the reader an illusion of presence. The most important narrator techniques was identified by Wolfe. New Journalism borrowed it from literary fiction, a scene on scene construction, which often breaks the chronology. The genre uses dialog, a third person narrative angle, which includes the journalist and his experience and feelings directly in the told story. It also includes a recording of everyday details such as behaviour, possessions, friends and family, which indicate the status life of the character.