"Who Killed King Kong?"

The article "Who Killed King Kong?" by X.J. Kennedy is about the movie King Kong and how it "outdid every monster before or since in sheer carnage". This article also talks about King Kong's death and how one "begins to think his legend is unkillable."

In the movie, Kong is a fifty foot ape that goes on smashing New York City and destroys it completely.Being surrounded by helicopters and policemen, Kong finds a blonde women dangle from the cliffs and is attracted to her beauty. He wants to fall in live with her but of course, who would fall in love with a fifty foot ape?

Well in X.J. Kennedy's article, he not only emphasizes on how great the movie was but also helps the reader relate to the tale. Yes, Kong is dead but not in reality. Kong, is the big ape that us as humans have within us. Just like he fell frustration towards the helicopters chasing him we also feel frustrated when something does not go right.

The quote I chose is "for what men doesn't secretly image himself a huge hairy howler against whom no other monster has a chance?" This quote is telling the reader that we sometimes feel superior over everyone else. We can see that just as King Kong felt he was dominant over everything. He too had feelings and tried to express them towards the women. We can relate to this quote in the way that we act sometimes. We tend to believe that we are better than everybody else when in reality we are all the same.