Review Of John Updike's Review "It Was Sad"
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I chose to review John Updike's Review “It Was Sad” from the October 14th issue
of “The New Yorker”. In the review, Updike examines several works concerning
the tragedy of the Titanic. He cites these works, I feel, to support his own
opinion about the event, and the different accounts of ....
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.... under. He provides quotes from the various selections, one being the
statistics of death, by class. These statistics show that, in actuality, more
of the upper class passengers survived than the lower classes (by both
percentage, and total people).
Updike also examines, in depth, the cultural effect of the sinking of the
Titanic. The thought that a ship declared unsinkable going down on its first
voyage was at the very least, shocking to the public. Who could look at
invention and progre ....
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