A Journey Into The Mind of Watts is an article Thomas Pynchon wrote expressing his views on racism. The essay takes place in the 1960's when racism was at the peak of civil rights. The time and place plays a major part in the examples Pynchon uses, because at this time, racism was very common and the acts of racism were definitely on the extreme side of the spectrum. Pynchon portrays the location of Los Angeles as a highly racist area with examples, of wrongful murders, and segregation between the two races that share a common community. Pynchon vividly reproduces what he sees into words so that the reader can visually see what he is writing about. He goes in great detail with specifics, and clearly makes his point evident that the community of L.A. is not one that accepts the other race.
In contrast to the Crying of Lot 49, Pynchon's approach to pull in his reader is completely different. In his article he was very straight forward to make his point, it was clear cut and concise. The Crying of Lot 49 exemplifies the complete opposite. We are left with nothing but question and must create our own conclusions. A Journey Into The Mind of Watts is more or less, persuading us to agree with Pynchon. He is giving us evidence that racism exists in L.A., and he is calling out the wrong do-ers. He writes the article in a way that we can't think any different from his opinion.
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