notfight back, so all they can do is take out their aggression on the few people who are yetweaker than they are.Don DeLillo’s “Videotape,” deals with violence differently. The focus of the storyis not the violence it self, but the effect that it has on people. In recent times, people havebecome desensitized to violence, because we see it all the time. In the news, movies andin video games. The little girl who videotapes the murder in the story is differenthowever, because she hasn’t been conditioned to the violence yet. When she sees the manin the car get shot, she physically jumps at the sight, yet the man watching on the news isexcitedly calling in his wife to see the murder on television. The viewing of violence canlead to a different type of internal violence. A violence inside the viewers head brought onby the sight of something so terrible that it even phases a grown man, this day in age. “The horror freezes your soul but this doesn’t mean you want them to stop (Charters432),” DeLillo writes. The repetitive viewing of violence today causes people to stopcaring about the violence in the world and it changes them, it makes them want to see it. Its almost addicting to see someone get shot while driving along on the highway. This issomething that can happen to anyone, and that what makes is so emotionally violent. Itforces the reader to rethink how they live their lives, and it makes them think thatsomething like that could happen to them. They could be walking down the street andthey next thing they know, they are dead. Only real life, external violence can bring outthis feeling of helplessness, and this is what internal violence is about. Its about fear, andhelplessness because you realize that you too can die, and there is nothing you can doabout it.Every day you can watch the news and see examples of violence. Its all over, andeveryone has seen it. It seems that at least e...
