Analysis Of It Was Like A Fever By Francesca Polletta

Protest has long been a reaction by people when they feel as if something wrong is being done towards them or people they care about. In the article titled “It was like a fever” written by Francesca Polletta they talk about various protest through time but, one seems to stick out in particular and that is the sit-ins done by college students in Greensboro, North Carolina. In the article they talk about this one so heavily because they say it was unplanned and “it was like a fever everyone wanted to go” this quote was so interesting because of their word choice. When comparing a protest to a fever you truly see the unspoken drive that these people had behind them.
This ambition is so important because I feel like in the younger generation a majority of them do not have this same drive behind them on certain issues. In my generation you hear many discuss issues like “Black Lives Matter” and they all go on social media and support the cause but then when I go back on to my social media accounts I do not see many of those same people supporting the cause in the form of protest. This is what I mean when I say losing ambition. Back in the error of the Greensboro sit-ins people were willing to lose their lives, go to jail, or whatever it took to get the message across that change must take place. Now, I do not see as many people …show more content…
Yes, there are some who are willing to do that but not many. I feel like there should be a new type of movement to ignite that fire back in to the younger generation. There are so many things taking place currently such as shootings