Source: The Sun
Representation of Issues
Sumet Thongkhammuan is an entertainer in Thailand for what appears to be some sort of animal show, similar to a circus. After whacking the crocodile on the head with a stick many times, he stuck his arm in the crocodile's mouth to please the crowd. The crocodile then clamped it's jaws shut and as Sumet struggled to retrieve his arm, the crocodile did a 'death roll' and snapped Sumet's arm in two. He was 'lucky to be alive'.
I'm not really sure what to compare this to but the closest thing I can think of is the Cecil the Lion ordeal a year or two ago where a hunter killed a Lion in a national park, which meant it was legally protected, and received exponential amounts of internet hate. He posed and flaunted the Lion's corpse. This is very similar to that situation but in stead of killing it for sport, he was forcing it to live in terrible conditions for entertainment. And what did he expect?
When you get into that sort of line of work, you need to recognize the risk of something like this:
happening to you. It was his own fault, especially since he was allegedly teasing it beforehand and beating it with a stick. In my opinion, animals need to be left alone as far as entertainment goes. Not only are they not as entertaining as they used to be, but now the world's becoming more and more aware to the cruelty of it. Let them go.
To improve this try and refer to how this is relevant to the Media course and also refer to representation.
ReplyDeleteGood use of comparison and your opinion but which representation category does this come under.
ReplyDeleteYou used comparison well and used pictures but need to make it clear what representation it comes under.
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