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Response #3 Delillo and Stone certainly view history in separate entities. Delillo believes we have lost our since of history and Stone questions the manipulation in our society in relation to the assasination of JFK. Dellilos work of fiction concerning the JFK uses dialogue both external and internal to "show" us what happened and to "show" us the motivation of his characters. He shows us everything. There are MANY things about the JFK assassination that argue …

…concerned, there is one story being told and "in two hours you get it or you don't". I felt an argument on screen expressing we should "feel" the truth. Stone used persuasive visual portrayal of events for the balanced view of history you would construct by constructing perspectives and looking at the evidence. Stone would have us believe that images are closer to truth than words but in reality they have a lot in common.