Essay Archive - Moore's "Roger and Me"
Moore's "Roger and Me"
Michael Moore is a writer and film director who stands up for the
blue-collar, working class people. In his film, 'Roger and Me', he shows
how these groups of people are mistreated and disregarded by the
stockholders and the company chairman of General Motors. Moore shows that
corporate America is the "American dream" perfected and then corrupted
because of greed and the will to power.
Michael Moore was born in Davison, Michigan, just outside of Flint,
in the shadow of the GM plant. His home was an apartment over a dry
cleaner's shop. His family moved from a small, three-room b....
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