In the article "Who killed King Kong?", X. J. Kennedy emphasizes how we kill Kong over and over again in hopes that our fears and true intentions will be released. We all want to destroy something at some point in our lives, and so we allow Kong to destroy New York and kill the white cops in the sense of placing ourselves in his shoes. The "American public refuse[s] to let King Kong rest in peace". The reason why I chose this quote, from Kennedy's article, is because it gave me an epiphany. It made me realize that what in fact the author is trying to say is true. We do not allow Kong to rest. Americans revise Kong's tragic death in hopes to let him die doing what we would never do: destroy a city, express our anger, and fight to protect the ones we love.
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