A READERS RESPONSE OF DON DELILLOS MAO II Don DeLillos Mao II is an unsettling novel that looks at the emotional detachment of people in America. The modern world has its flaws and the distance that separates man from the crowd can be quite disturbing. The author maximizes this theme in his novel and equally writes in an unsettling way. The narrator is not seen anywhere, and just wants to prove the point that America can be a different kind of place for one to stay. This is where the author succeeds in disturbing readers because I, for one, get the general feeling that a person can be amidst a lot of people and still feel like he is alone. This isolation can make one lose his identity in a mass of people. It starts right off at the start in a Moonie wedding in Yankee Stadium where the presence of the crowd astonishes Karens Dad.
There is an unsettling feeling as the reader finds a big stadium yet reads the contradiction as another character states, Its as though they designed this to the maximum degree to let the relatives squirm. (p.5).
Actually, this is the feeling that pervades one as he reads the novela kind of squirmy feeling that makes one uneasy. The varied visual images are prominent and painstakingly described by the author in order to make readers feel more squirmy about issues on terrorism, isolation, desperation, loneliness and despair. The shifts in time and setting is characteristic of the whole novel and in the end, there is an eerie feeling that the author seemed to have a shift in time about terrorism since he would not have known of the Sept. 11, 2001 bombing as his novel came out in 1992, yet he seemed to have transcended and known it all along as the uneasiness present in Mao II resembles the same uneasiness that would happen nine years after the book was published.
The Essay on Forgive And Forget Reader Author Anger
Forgive and Forget Jack Turner begins his piece, The Abstract Wild: A Rant, with a powerful anecdote about a Jewish client who makes the decision to begin his journey ill-prepared rather than wear old Germany army pants. The speaker of this piece is a climbing guide and although he is annoyed by his client coming without the necessary equipment, he greatly respects his integrity. The remainder of ...
WORK CITED DeLillo, D. Max II. Penguin (Non-Classics) (May 1, 1992).
