American Paranoia

  Americans have been obssesed with the dark forces for a long time now. They have created many stories, movies and T.V. shows.

   There are many short stories including ideas of the super natural. For instance, there is a genre of short stories called occult detectives. Instead of it being a traditional detective story it has cases involving ghosts and curses. Usually the detectives consider themselves psychic or they have some kind of power. The idea of ghosts facinate and entertain Americans. We love to hear stories about how ghosts are caught or discovered, it's American entertainment at its finest.

    Many movies are based on the idea of ghosts. For example, the Paranormal Activity movies, all include ghosts taking over the homes of common American families. They have made 5 of these movies now. If they weren't popular there wouldnt be so many of them. American's loved to be scared as long as it isn't happening to themselves.

    American T.V. shows have been based on the idea of supernatural forces for a while now. Such as, The Walking Dead uses the idea of zombies taking over the world and leaving a small group of people fending for themselves. They have to be able to survive and defeat zombies daily. The show's high ratings prove how popular the idea of zombies are.

    Supernatural forces have taken over American entertainment. Americans all love a good story with supernatural forces. They love the thrill and the idea of dark forces taking over or lurking in the shadows.

Classic Anti-Hero

            Through out history society has been introduced to many anti-hero's. Which causes us to actually think about the character. Is the character a bad person or are they still a hero? I have chosen to compare Ichabod Crane and Nancy Botwin, from the show Weed's.
             Both Ichabod and Nancy are very misleading to the rest of the town they live in. Ichabod is misleading the rest of the town and Katrina herself. He makes it seem he truly does care for Katrina but in the end he is only after her inheritance. Nancy also misleads her town and family, for quite a while. She seems to be a normal soccer mom but in her free time, or when no one is watching, she is selling marijuana to some people in order to make money. They both successfully mislead many people in their stories.

            Ichabod and Nancy are also greedy.  Instead of just dealing with their poverty like many other people do, they both try to find a way to make more. Ichabod lies and deceives Katrina just to be able to be wealthy and live a luxurious life. Nancy also lies to her family to be able to keep her luxurious home in a small suburb, instead of finding a normal job and settling for less. 

           Finally, they are both very lazy.  They both decide to find an easier way to make money. Ichabod believes if he marries Katrina he will be able to live the kind of life he dreams of. Although it would make him wealthy quickly, its the easy way out. He could find a way to make money another way. Nancy decides to sell marijuana in order to make money quicker. She could easily find a job and work for her money legally but she decides that it would be easier to just sell marijuana. They both decide to be lazy instead of finding decent ways to make money. 

          Anti-Hero's have been around for a long time in literature and have now made appearances in our movies and t.v. show's. They constantly make the audience torn between what to think. The idea of Anti-Hero's have been around for a long time and won't be leaving anytime soon. Not everything is as simple as black and white sometimes you have to compromise for grey.