Rita Dove's Article: Loose Ends, And Online Media

Some authors and critics such as Rita Dove, and Marie Winn, say some people prefer an online or “alternative” reality to their normal day to day lives. In Rita Dove’s article, “Loose ends,” she says that Media lets us experience a, “easier tale to tell”, because its ability to not make you think at all. Marie Winn approaches media as an addiction where very much like drug or alcohol addicts, they don’t realize they are addicted. Dove and Winn both describe in their articles examples of ways people are attached to another reality. Dove gives first hand experiences in her article “Loose Ends”, while Winn gives more of an analysist view point in her article, “The Plug-In Drug”. People would much rather prefer an alternative reality to their own because you don’t have to think about it and it provides an outlet to escape their day to day activities.
With the sudden explosion of the internet and other such medias such as Television, Film, and Video Games it’s not very hard for people to get enveloped in such medias. In a regular day of the average person they will wake up, go to work, and sleep but with the expansion and growth of media they can now exit their normal day and experience an entirely new place where they do …show more content…
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