"In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad"

Reading this article I found out that it wasn’t a normal or classic one. It is new journalism. You will find a lot of background information, which sure took a lot of extensive research. But then you find a short story of a man named Lai. His story portraits the situation of a factory that builds ipads, Foxconn’s factory in Chengdu. So you will read an article full of facts, taken from long time ago, and a real story that shows them; exploring the power of a single worker experience. All of this information gathered makes this article as an important and interesting news report. A news report that sure took time and work.

• "In China, Human Costs Are Built Into an iPad". The New York Times. 01, 25, 2012. World. Web.  http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/26/business/ieconomy-apples-ipad-and-the-human-costs-for-workers-in-china.html?_r=4&pagewanted=2&hp 
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Fictional reality

"I believe that if you go deep enough into characters they become so real that their stories feel like make-believe, they feel like fiction. I want to evoke the fictional current that flows beneath the stream of reality" Gay Talese

When I read this quote I thought of the stories I would expect to find when reading Talese. It is clear that he wants to find the fictional side of reality. I think it will be interesting because I think I would find something that is extraordinary, but at the same time realistic and believable. Finding the real side of fiction must be interesting.

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"Capote" The movie and the class

This movie, "Capote", from Bennett Miller, is very connected with the topics seen in English class. The movie is about the way in wich Capote starts to write his story: "In Cold Blood".  We can see how he uses journalism to write novels. His interviews with Perry, for example, mean a lot; not only because these are journalistic actions but because we can see that the closer he gets to the criminal, the closer he can understand him and describe him. Only with actions and interviews he is able to make a complete and deep description of a character. Capote manages to create a long story with facts and testimony, a book that it is always atached to what really happens. But at the same time a very deep and descriptive writting. A non-fiction novel.

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A letter to Capote

February, 2012

Truman Capote:

I read the first chapter of your book "In Cold Blood": "The Last To See Them Alive". I think that it is a very interesting novel. You can connect with the reading, finding it realistic and descriptive. You can follow the plot of the story with no problem. And also have deep fellings, symphathy and rejection, towards every single character; all of them complex. You have done a very good job writting it based on journalistic facts. The choosen news is very strong, why did you choose it? It must be difficult to write and research about such a crime scene. I think you have done a very good job as a writter and as a journalist. 

Carlos A. González

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