Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Unmasked: the final years of Michael Jackson

Welcome back today's topic is what does the writer do to engage you in the books content. Halperin chooses to start at specific points in Jackson's life. Like starting with the first molestation accusation and from there on he gives a lot of details about Jackson life, like his medical condition and family life. But the thing that is very important is that he tries hard to remain impartial in the different situations that he discusses so that the reader can never use his opinion as a crutch but rather they create their own opinion. He never gives his true opinion he says thing like "i don't know and cant say if he did it or not" but all these things keep u engaged to find out the outcome in the end you feel like did her or did he not do it. But he also chooses to give background information in the beginning which acts like an accreditation for the rest of the story. But then through out the story he always gives what i call accreditation reminders to tell remind you that his writing is still held to a certain standard and that he will remain in his unbiased position the entire story.

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