Reading Language Arts (English II)

Title Your Name Subject and Section Professor’s Name Date Part A The way in which the author refers to the crowd effects at the concert of The Who in Cincinnati is a good example of deindividuation which explains how people can lose their awareness of a responsible behavior under group settings. The phenomenon described here should be taken as an illustration of how group behavior can greatly affect how people act. In order to suggest the responsibility of “a crowd” for the casualties, instead of pointing fingers at some particular people, the text evidently proves the power of group identity in moments of confrontation. It simply suggests the deindividualize effect in which one acts alone without awareness of their own actions and thus only influenced by the group (Ostergaard, 2019). The packed hall and the collective exhilaration of the concert seemed to cause people to become entranced by the group dynamics, which in turn made some of them cease to notice their inner boundaries and personal accountability. As the throng menaced towards them, individuals might have been forced to trust the actions of others, even if they feared for the possible consequences. It evidences suppressing constraint formed by the collective anonymity and indeterminate responsibility of large mob people. Therefore, th...