ENG365H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Time Complexity, Utopia, Mae
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Hostage witness terrorists played soccer with makeshift ball. Include teen girls (2) and boys become undisciplined, caught by surprise when raid . Mrta rebels took 600 hostages, released half soon, continued to release until 72. Hostages report to be more afraid of raid violence than terrorists" violence. Mrta seeking to free peru from oppression, help poor . Not intention to kill, seeking to free comrades from jail. Sympathy between rebels and hostages some hostages cried after deaths of rebels. Nested in inevitability but an optimistic novel (tells that all rebels will die in beginning of novel) Inverts the mediated view of terrorism from outside, showing what happens inside. Failed social experiment roxanne inverts usual relationship to mass media on terrorism, emphasis on real time camera rolling -> what camera can"t capture. Names from operas i. e. carmen, roxanne signifying artifice of narrative. Explores what it means to be held hostage by art, social, terrorism.
