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.

Tuesday, March 10, 2009

John Bonhomme

The story really begin to fall into place these last chapters. The format of the book as well as Roberts explanation in class helped me understand what was going on perfectly well. The format of the book is one main story with a bunch of other stories going on inside that main story. The other stories which are going on are the stories which the main characters are reading. The truth behind it all is that a corrupt translator as well as publisher have created this entire thing. The main characters are on a goose hunt to find something which is fraud. The moral of the story is the reader should get satisfaction out of the suspense which the book has left. A story is not all about plot, it's also about the emotions which one feels while reading through a novel. This novel just happens to leave one on the edge of their seat, and keep you there. Some people may like this but I enjoy closer better. There are some good points to this though. People always complain about endings. Well in Calvino's stories there are no endings, so what is there to complain about?

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