Hitler in White Noise

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Hitler in White Noise, and why? What is it that drives one to the point of not being scared to die? In some instances we see warriors, athletes, and even everyday people looking death straight in the eye and not being afraid. In the influential Hollywood Football classic movie “Any Given Sunday” Coach Tony D`Amato, as played by Al Pacino, talks to his football team about this during halftime of the biggest game of their lives. One of his famous quotes “I'll tell you this, in any fight it's the guy whose willing to die whose gonna win” expresses the success that one can possibly have after getting over the fear of death. It should not be a bad and embarrassing thing for Jack, many people have a fear of death. Jack just lets it haunt him too much. The protagonist Jack Gladney yearned to figure out how not to fear death in the novel White Noise written by Don Delillo. He is easily influenced by other characters in the book such as Vernon Dickey, Bee, Orest Mercator, and other media portrayed occurrences like Hitlers mass killings. Vernon Dickey is a rugged man and really isn’t afraid of anything, he is a hands on guy who likes to build things. The act of Vernon giving Jack a loaded gun showed how comfortable Vernon was with death. Guns and death are so closely related and to have a gun means death can be caused by you or against you at any time. Bee`s confidence and open mind to the large world around us causes Jack to be self conscience because he knows he should be more like her in that regard, but isn’t. Orest sits in a cage of poisonous snakes showing utter disrespect and conquering the possibility of death. Being in touch with death is what Jack admires about Hitler. Hitler devalues the worth of just one life because of the mass killings that he does. Jack’s sub conscience believes that if he can slightly devalue his own life to himself than he will not
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