The Titanic's History: The Sinking Of The Titanic

Even though the Titanic sunk over one hundred years ago, the writing has not stopped. In less then a day after the Titanic sank, the New York Evening Sun printed the article titled, “ ALL SAVED FROM TITANIC AFTER COLLISION.” After a day later after gathering new information, the previous article was replaced with “ TITANIC SINKS,1500 DIE.” Some of the survivors wrote stories about the beginning of their trip to America all the way to the sinking of the Titanic. People have even written poems about the disaster. Over one hundred songs about the titanic were published a year after the sinking. The Titanic’s History has been fabricated over and over for the past 100 years. Historians, movie producers and writers wrote about the sinking of the
In “Titanic: The Last Night of a Small Town,” Welshman works hard to tell the stories of second-class passengers. He provides little biographies of all his characters with a lot of details. another survivor, a boy of nine at the time, realized long after settling with his family in the Midwest that he couldn’t bring himself to go to Detroit Tigers games because the noise that greeted home runs reminded him of the cries of the dying. The impulse to reappraise is not new. The best analysis of Titanic mythmaking is Steven Biel’s “Down with the Old Canoe: A Cultural History of the Titanic Disaster,”. Biel, a Harvard historian, showed how the Titanic’s story has been made to serve the purposes of everyone from anti-suffragettes to the labor movement to Republicans. He argues that, while the sinking was “neither catalyst nor cause,” it “did expose and come to represent anxieties about modernity.” One of these was race: an assault on one of the wireless operators during the ship’s final minutes was blamed on a nonexistent “Negro” crew
The movie was a love story wrapped around the Titanic. Several similar movies that have the same theme have resurfaced again and again, In Jean Negulesco’s “Titanic” (1953), a woman was unhappily married to a wealthy man and she feels that she is living an empty life. The end of the movie depicts them both realize that love is more valuable than money. Cameron’s movie, “Titanic” has a very similar theme. The female character, Rose, was a part of a wealthy family and was being married off to a very rich man,