Jack Johnson's song, "Cookie Jar" is a powerful influence to challenge the beliefs and values of western society. The song is all about blaming what you have done on someone else, hence the title Cookie Jar. The title is "Cookie Jar" because of the old saying "Who stole the cookie from the cookie jar, Who me, Yes you, No not me" this means that we are always trying to find someone else to blame, rather than ourselves, we try to find a scapegoat to get us out of the mess that we have created. "Cookie Jar" challenges the beliefs and values of western society because, in the song a young boy kills another young child with a gun and he said that you cant blame him. His dad , the media man, the singer of the song and the maker of the movie, who are all characters who's jobs are their titles, movie maker, etc. all say that they're not to blame as well.
The narrative voice in "Cookie Jar" should be embarrassed to turn on the TV, because it truly is embarrassing to see what people in a western society now watch as entertainment and for gossip. In western culture the media plays a big role in the values and attitudes of the community, it explains to people what is currently happening and people will always be gullible and believe everything they are told on the TV, but Jack Johnson challenges this, by a part in his last stanza in "Cookie Jar", "It was magic at first, But it let everyone down, And now this world is gonna hurt, You better turn it around, Turn it around" These lyrics encourage and engage the views on Television in its truths and values in society, the narrative voice here is telling everyone how much of a let down it is, its not meant to be there for teaching the world about violence and not taking the blame for yourself. The repetition of "turn it around" makes the listeners think about what should they do and what can they do to try to stop things like children playing with guns, because the repetition makes the listeners hear it more then once and therefore the will absorb it more and remember it , so they can turn it around.
The narrative voice in "Cookie Jar" should be embarrassed to turn on the TV, because it truly is embarrassing to see what people in a western society now watch as entertainment and for gossip. In western culture the media plays a big role in the values and attitudes of the community, it explains to people what is currently happening and people will always be gullible and believe everything they are told on the TV, but Jack Johnson challenges this, by a part in his last stanza in "Cookie Jar", "It was magic at first, But it let everyone down, And now this world is gonna hurt, You better turn it around, Turn it around" These lyrics encourage and engage the views on Television in its truths and values in society, the narrative voice here is telling everyone how much of a let down it is, its not meant to be there for teaching the world about violence and not taking the blame for yourself. The repetition of "turn it around" makes the listeners think about what should they do and what can they do to try to stop things like children playing with guns, because the repetition makes the listeners hear it more then once and therefore the will absorb it more and remember it , so they can turn it around.
