A Lexicon Of Terror Analysis

We also see represntatino of violence within Marguertie Feitlowitz book, A Lexicon of Terror, although different than “The Offical Story,” in regards to how violence is presneted to the reader. Rather then having settle hints to the viewer and or the reader; violence is laid out through personal accounts of indvidudals who face such socital traumas. Within Feitlowitz book, she teels the story of a young women named Susan who on a normal day while riding the bus in broad daylight was abducted, Feitlowitz states: “ “Por el pelo, no” a women pleaded softly as Susana was dragged passed her, “not by the hair.” … What Susana members clearly is the silence: except for the women, no one said a word “ (173). It later states that Susana was being “stripped,

blindfolded, tied to a bedframe, and electrically tortured” (174). What we can see through this example is that although many acts of violence were commited at night there are still occuring in daylight; and still no one responds to such acts because they fear they two will also be taken away and tortured. This public display of violence leads to the social trauma and invokes fear into people lives. Feitlowitz states: “lots of Argentines saw kidnappings and knew perfectly well what they were witnessing” (175).