Theme Of Mass Media In The Native Son

Mass media a source of information and entertainment. People need or want to be constantly aware of what is happening around them. In Native Son, people turn to newspaper for all their information needs. Sadly, everything you read is not always true or manipulating the truth. The story of the Native Son shows the many ways the media is influential upon people. The story revolves around this because people believe what they read. It adds another perspective to the story like how the public is seeing everything happen.

There are many types of mass media like newspapers, radios, cinema, and advertisements. Newspapers are the main source of media in this story. They slightly use the cinema and advertisements. In the beginning of the story, the …show more content…
Both are controlled by the mass media because they influence the people to think this way. It’s to a point where an imaginary line separates the two groups of people. They feel like they cannot even but around them. Whites gets the better job, houses, justice system and more. They black are perfectly are ok with because they have accepted the fact that they may not be treated as equal. They even go as for to suggest that blacks and white be segregation in parks, playground, cafes. Instead, of trying to make amends with blacks for all of the hardship causes by them but they just push them father away. This leads to an injustice because the want them to far away from them. Anyway to keep the black and white segregated then they will do whatever it takes. The justice systems play a big role in this. They can lock up or kill anybody whom messes with a white person because they feel as if they a better than them. Black on Black on crime happens on the daily on the Southside but what is actually done about it. They care more for the safety of the privilege to they can keep want they have. Most people don’t even work for they have it is just given to them. The black people are working on the daily to keep what minimum they have but it can just be easily taken away from them and that hard work is thrown out the window. They also take this as opportunity to attack the whole population for one-person mistake. They media is constantly enforcing this upon. They only portrayal the bad things that happen in the community. They want the hostile and it created more for them to write. They see it more as a way to increase profit rather than to trying to have a peaceful and equal community ground. They media loves to twist things around to work in their favor. The influence of racial superior and injustice will always be around as love as the media to shows and force such things upon