How reliable is source 5 as a representation of the death of Hattie Carroll?

The Lone several(prenominal) Death of Hattie Carroll, the song by bobfloat Dylan is both reliable and unreliable in many ways as a representation of her death.During the total darkness Civil Rights Movement of the time, Dylan was a popular artist and felt strongly about this specific cause. finished his lyrics he spoke out for the oppressed minority. His songs however, did not represent the views of all the black people at the time. Through his lyrics he expressed only his point of view. consequently, it must be taken into cipher that thither may be bias of some form in some of his works.We must take into account that it is more than likely that Dylan was not at the actual murder scene and therefore his song is a secondary source. We also are not totally sure if Dylan was genuinely concerned about the welfare of the oppressed, or, he was using the situation to boost his own career. Ultimately, these together could be situationors for why Dylan wrote and performed finger-pointi ng songs.I would say that the majority of the motives in his work are honourable but others may think differently. Joan Baez, a folk singer and a Civil Rights activist and, Dylans girlfriend at the time said of him he never went to marches. One of the ironic things was, 20 years after the fact, people at marches saying, Is tail coming? We heard Bobs coming. He never went. It wasnt his life and there was no reason he should genuinely because he didnt believe in all that politics stuff.The contents of the song tell us some of the basic facts about the incident. We experience Hattie was murdered by Zanzinger who got a very lenient sentence. Gaps however live in our knowledge due to the fact that source 5 contains only part of the actual song. Therefore we do not see the full picture surrounding what happened and what actually happened.Dylan puts his lyrics across with a chaff and bitterness. This is because Carroll was murdered due to racial discrimination. We are not sure if Dyla n was present at the trial and because of this we cannot affirm what he is suggesting fully but we can take it for granted that what he is saying is at least partly true.I feel that Dylans intended audience was universal. He aimed to inform people of the wrong in society and he gave the black Americans hope in their campaign for justice. I can only take over that Dylan wrote this song to make society aware of what was happening to the black people. I also think that the fact that Dylan would gain publicity for his controversy and therefore this may have been a reason for him writing and perform finger-pointing songs.In source 5 we do not gain any insight into Zanzingers motives for murdering Carroll. Zanzingers narration is not known and because each story has two sides we cannot view the bigger picture.This source is partly reliable. We know that Dylan had a good reputation as a truthful, genuine artist but it must be acknowledged that the limitations to the song as a represent ation of the death of Hattie Carroll given the language, tone, motives and the missing part of the source.