Five Key Questions

Earth Song - Michael Jackson

1. Who created this message?
This song was written by Michael Jackson at a hotel in Autralia in 1995.

2. What creative techniques are used to attract my attention?
The main techniques that attract my attention are the images that we can see in the video that represents what is happening today in the world, also the way Michael Jackson interpreted the song and the words used to describe this.

3. How might different people understand this message differently?
People can understand this message as way to become awate and start doing something to save our planet from destruction before it's too late. Others may think that this is an opportunity to show us the real situation of helplessness that different tribes are living.


4. What values, lifestyles and points of view are represented in, or omitted from, this message?
In this song we can find lifestyles like civilizations at war, poverty different tribes, pollution in industrialized countries, the devastation that man has done to the nature, the killing of animals and the hope of a peaceful world.
This song is the cry of nature for all the damage that man has caused.

5.Why is this message being sent?
I think that this message is being sent because is very important that we become aware of what's happening in the world as a result of the hand of man.
It's time for us to know the different realities in the world, specially the famine in the Horn of Africa, the effects of the global warming - melting ice, droughts, shortages,etc. -.
Although this song was written in 1995 is fully applicable to the year in which we live, 2012, and we can see that in 17 years the situation hasn't changed.