Third Great Awakening: A Literary Analysis

The New York magazine is highly regarded as the launching point of what is now known as new journalism. New journalism focused more on reporting what was seen as the truth, rather than using literal facts. Using a literary style reminiscent of long-form non-fiction, Tom Wolfe wrote “The “Me” Decade and the Third Great Awakening,” which was published on the twenty-third of August, 1976. Mr. Wolfe uses the shock value of a hemorrhoid to grab the reader’s curiosity, and then he never lets go. He implements a new form of describing things that literally strings adjectives together to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. My favorite phrase that exemplifies this is perhaps when he calls Jimmy Carter a "Missionary lectern-pounding Amen ten-finger