Silkwood - Apathy or Activism

Karen Silkwood, a model of the southern American, blue collar, confederate, activist, is a nuclear power plant worker with a mission. During the last chapter of her life she is in a battle with the company for which she works. Karen realizes the safety practices of the power plant are very lax once she accidentally witnesses the dismantling of a “cooked,” or radiation-poisoned truck while leaving the plant. This, and the contamination of one of her fellow employees, spurs her on to do something about the problem with safety regulations. She joins the union at work and begins the biggest fight of her life.

This shows how much Karen cares about her community, namely her place of employment. She displays her good citizenship through her actions, whi

Winston has no moment when he can be considered a good citizen. If he wanted to change his ways he would have to had stepped up to the company and denounced the practice of doctoring negatives or gone straight to the public and exposed the problem, thus forcing major reform or closure of the plant. But he doesn’t, and that makes him not only a bad citizen, but also a criminal and a pawn in the power plants game of money making at the expense of their employees.

Karen’s boyfriend is Drew Stephens. A coworker and housemate, Drew is an apathetic, cruel, and inconsiderate for the majority of the film. Whether it be making fun of other people, quitting his job due to a lack of commitment to solving its problems, or intentionally hurting Karen with his harsh words and lack of support for her activism. Drew eventually turns his horrible display of citizenship into an acceptable form when he realizes how deeply the power plant has hurt his girlfriend, Karen, after he walks through their house which had been completely emptied, due to Karen’s contamination. After this point of the movie, Drew decides to fight back a little bit against the company. This is shown when he punches a company-supporting employee named Winston in the face. This is a display of Drew’s opposition to the p

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