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Representing Homelessness.
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Stephanie Vanstone Amanda Grzyb MIT272A: Representing Homelessness 5 December 2003 The mass media provides a diversity of visual experiences that both inform and persuade public opinion. Through a wealth of images this pervasive form of media assembles an illusionistic world where the person and objects in it become equivalent to the public's perception of actual existence. This is the case for the homeless depicted in Jennifer Toth's, The Mole People. By merely portraying the underground homeless as a dichotomous subculture Toth proliferates the public's notion of "deserving" and "undeserving" homeless populations. The Mole People exemplifies the correlation between the "reality" of an image and the psychological and mythical constructs of society in the United States, allowing its authorship to explore a dualism that manipulates Western thought. In Jennifer Toth's, The Mole People, the author ironically intends to dismiss the urban myth of animal-like underground dwellers by presenting her readership with the personal accounts of...
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