The blog for SUNY Binghamton's Spring'09 COLI 214B 02 Literature and Society Class. Chapter summaries, analyses and discussion of prescribed texts written by students.

Thursday, January 29, 2009

John Bonhomme

Chapters I to IV were very confusing yet interesting. Mark Z. Danielewski manages to do a good job of hooking the reader in without foreshadowing the end result of the story. It appears that two stories are going on at the same time. One story is the Navidson story and the other is coming from Johnny Traunt. The Navidson story is being told in an unique style. The author goes in and out of different prospectives at different times of the story. Sometimes the story is narrated from the Hi8 camera's which are located around the house, and sometimes it is being told from the prospective of a 3rd person. When reading this story it feels like a movie is being watched, yet at points in time we get more insight than what the movie is showing. However, this story has a concrete plot forming. Navidson has become fascinated with this house being bigger on the inside. In fact this fascination is so large that he calls his brother into the story, who he hasn't spoken to in eight years. The Johnny Traunt story however is a bit confusing. This guy seems to be on heavy drugs at times, which makes the story confusing since we are reading the thoughts inside his head. He thinks very sporadically and digresses a lot, although we see consistency in the theme of girls, drugs, and parties. He also has a friend Lude who I believe is infact himself. Lets see what happens later in the story.
Questions
Does Johnny Traunt remind anyone from the character in fight club?
Why is house always in blue?
At one point in time Karen's sister was talking about Karen, were her details fact or fiction?

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