Press: The Los Angeles Daily News. Wednesday, November 8, 1944. Headline: District Court of Appeals decides in Sleepy Lagoon murder case . . . boys in pachuco given . . .
People: FREEDOM!!!
This scene was entirely confusing to me, but I started to understand it gradually as I kept rereading it, realizing that this scene was a celebration of both the worlds freedom as well as the freedom of Henry and the boys. The Freedom and winnings of the Wars that were called out by the Marines; Rudy, Shore Patrol and the Press shows that the Media tries to make something possible, impossible of happening. Same goes for the Appeal and the boys getting out of jail and the justice they deserved, the media made it definitely seem to be impossible, when it was possible. So overall it shows that anything is possible if consistent in persuading what is needed. That the media may try to underestimate ones persistence, but if effort is put towards the issue at hand, which in this case was to be Free, then Freedom will be given just as it was shown through the writer Luis Valdez, portraying this aspect from the World and Prison point of view. How both the World and those in Prison wants freedom.
Question: How did the newspaper being torn to shreds, and later thrown as confetti tie into the winning of the war as well as the Freedom of the boys?
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I like your question about the newspaper. Do you have a response to your own question or is it something your truly aren't sure of yet?
ReplyDeletei totally agree with you i didn't understand this scene at all.
ReplyDeleteIt was something I was unsure about, but as I thought about it I'm pretty sure it had something to do with the media and the newspapers which had a major part throughout, but I'm not sure.
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