In the 1960s, the Vietnam War pressured the American society and culture into the anti-war movement. A new culture was founded to protest against the entrance of the war. Through the eyes of a drafted man, a passionate protester and a political author, the audience learns different responses to the movement. Their contrasting expressions of the spirit of the time provokes a similar message together. David Lance Goines, Ann Charters and Susan Sontag demonstrate their approach to support the anti-war movement through their personal views.
David Lance Goines was a student, at the University of California in Berkeley, active in the Free Speech Movement. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, he had registered for the draft just after turning eighteen. Goines was confident that he would not be drafted due to his poor eyesight. However, he had received a letter that he was selected to be sent out to war. Goines’ response was to constantly send letters to the bureaucracy in hopes that his file would become misplaced. His plan was successful when he did not receive any letters back.
In Ann Charters’ How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration, the audience follows the progression of the peaceful demonstrations becoming more violent. Just after finishing her doctorate in American …show more content…
Sontag expresses more of a political point of view in What’s Happening in America responding to the Partisan Review’s questionnaire. Sontag discusses how America brought themselves into the war and they deserve to have everything taken away. She presents President Johnson as a fraud because he is not being forced by any system when he personally chooses the places where the Army should bomb. Sontag further explains that racism against African-Americans will never be extinct. The last important point made was how the administration's foreign policies were corrupted and will lead to more and larger
David Lance Goines was a student, at the University of California in Berkeley, active in the Free Speech Movement. In Let Sleeping Dogs Lie, he had registered for the draft just after turning eighteen. Goines was confident that he would not be drafted due to his poor eyesight. However, he had received a letter that he was selected to be sent out to war. Goines’ response was to constantly send letters to the bureaucracy in hopes that his file would become misplaced. His plan was successful when he did not receive any letters back.
In Ann Charters’ How to Maintain a Peaceful Demonstration, the audience follows the progression of the peaceful demonstrations becoming more violent. Just after finishing her doctorate in American …show more content…
Sontag expresses more of a political point of view in What’s Happening in America responding to the Partisan Review’s questionnaire. Sontag discusses how America brought themselves into the war and they deserve to have everything taken away. She presents President Johnson as a fraud because he is not being forced by any system when he personally chooses the places where the Army should bomb. Sontag further explains that racism against African-Americans will never be extinct. The last important point made was how the administration's foreign policies were corrupted and will lead to more and larger