User:Chelsey.brantley/sandbox: Difference between revisions

Line 76:

violence occurred. Yet he gains credibility when integrating outside witnesses

and reportage into a book that was mostly reported from his standpoint,{{pg|485|486}}

and these external sources may have lent more authority to the charge that

protesters were abused. For any journalist there was difficulty in covering

something as large as the march on the Pentagon “because of the extensive

terrain in question and the rapidmovements of the protestors and soldiers."{{sfn|Small|1994|p=72}} Acting as a novelist-journalist, Mailer collects varied media accounts

of the march and weaves them into the narrative; here he features

one Leftist perspective of the march, identifying the witness as “Harvey

Mayes of the English Department at Hunter”:

<blockquote>One soldier spilled the water from his canteen on the ground in order to add to the discomfort of the female demonstrator at his feet. She cursed him—understandably, I think—and shifted her body. She lost her balance and her shoulder hit the rifle at the soldier’s side. He raised the rifle, and with its butt, came down hard on the girl’s leg. The girl tried to move back but was not fast enough to avoid the billy-club of a soldier in the second row of the troops. At least four times that soldier hit her with all his force.{{sfn|Mailer|1988|p=303}}</blockquote>

===Citations===

@@ Line 76: / Line 76: @@
 violence occurred. Yet he gains credibility when integrating outside witnesses
 and reportage into a book that was mostly reported from his standpoint,{{pg|485|486}}
+and these external sources may have lent more authority to the charge that
+protesters were abused. For any journalist there was difficulty in covering
+something as large as the march on the Pentagon “because of the extensive
+terrain in question and the rapidmovements of the protestors and soldiers."{{sfn|Small|1994|p=72}} Acting as a novelist-journalist, Mailer collects varied media accounts
+of the march and weaves them into the narrative; here he features
+one Leftist perspective of the march, identifying the witness as “Harvey
+Mayes of the English Department at Hunter”:
+<blockquote>One soldier spilled the water from his canteen on the ground in order to add to the discomfort of the female demonstrator at his feet. She cursed him—understandably, I think—and shifted her body. She lost her balance and her shoulder hit the rifle at the soldier’s side. He raised the rifle, and with its butt, came down hard on the girl’s leg. The girl tried to move back but was not fast enough to avoid the billy-club of a soldier in the second row of the troops. At least four times that soldier hit her with all his force.{{sfn|Mailer|1988|p=303}}</blockquote>
 ===Citations===