Party

Ellison's, "A Party Down at the Square" is a gut-retching short story about a young man's experience watching an African American man get tortured and killed. The story was written in the modernist era, but sadly this narrow-minded mentality still exists today. 

For some reason, many of us are infatuated and intrigued by watching other people suffer. Often, when we feel we just can't "watch" or "look" anymore, or turn way, we don't. Because something inside of us likes to see other people suffer. The biggest examples I can use is our infatuation with the media's portrayal of the war, and even bigger, our infatuation with reality television. We don't watch reality television to watch every one get along, we watch it to see everyone degrade and tear each other apart. That is really what it is all about. Gotta love America folks!