... the dark poem "Strange Fruit," author Joy Harjo, explores the difficulties that minorities in the world. Throughout the poem, there is a reoccurring theme of hatred and violence, personified through antagonists, the 'Klu Klux Klan'. The author takes us through the life of a possible African American female, another victim of the violent hatred towards minorities. This poem is written and ... encounter, especially in America. The opening sentence of the poem, creates the background for the poem, describing what she was doing and who she saw. The author then introduces the antagonist...

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... , and Bible that one had in her pocketbook the day she was in the church basement attending Sunday school. The white officials, who were more or less viewed as the antagonists, spoke of that same era from their point of view. Through intercutting photos of lynched black men wearing a sign that read "This Nigger Voted", white men made common yet hypocritical ... ...

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... of control vicious renegades, and basically turning their backs on their own people. In order to avoid racial pollution Griffith cast white actors to play the parts of the fierce antagonists. Creating on of the worst make-up jobs in film history Griffith uses, what seems to be, shoe polish to cover the skin and create a none-too-convincing blackface. This ... ...

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... is based upon knowledge and first hand experience. Moore further utilises characterisation through his structure which positions the audience to see interviewees, such as Charlton Heston (president of NRA) as antagonists. In the final scene, Heston goes as far as blaming violence on "mixed ethnicity", and by positioning this scene last in the documentary Moore provides a final haunting message to the ... ...

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