I choose to reflect a novel calls Gone Girl by Gillian
Flynn.
Gone
girl tells the story of a spouse, Nick and Amy Dunne. Their married life is not
so well and it becomes worse when Nick has decided to move from New York City
to his hometown at Missouri which Amy hates. One day, Amy Dunne disappeared on
the day of her fifth wedding anniversary. Amy goes missing’s news has been
attractive by media and people. Nick was charged with murder-underestimating
his wife. So, he must do anything to prove that he isn’t murderer.
After
I have read this book the point that came into my mind is about “mass media”.
Actually this book reminds me many things such as media consumption habits,
media ethics and etc. but the point that interesting to me the most is why
media influenced to people so much?
Medias
take a big role in this story, (spoiler alert) Nick and Amy decided to live together again because they would
like to put on an act for the public and convince people to think that they are
a perfect couple by using media. Amy is a very intelligent woman. She knows how
to control media and make them be on her side. And then when media support her
that means people will be on her side too. This can prove that Medias are
influencing to people so much. They effect to people’s mind, belief, decision, life
and etc. for example, (spoiler alert) Amy told she was kidnapped, imprisoned and
raped by her ex-boyfriend but in fact she didn’t. She decided to kill him
because she wants to return to her husband like a pitiful girl. She wants
people think she really love her husband so that she can kill a person. As a
result related staffs didn’t check up her carefully because the image that she
created.
For
me, the social of sarcastic in this book can reflect ‘media consumption habit’
and ‘media ethics’ as well. The media always show the things that people want
to know not the fact that people supposed to know.
