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This week, our focus is our analytical paper. As I said in class, the thought of writing 1800 words on one of the three books I’ve read makes me really nervous since I’ve found it hard to write 500 words on them. I’m thinking about writing about the Naked Lunch since I haven’t written much about that novel. There are a couple things that make me rethink writing about Naked Lunch. I am not comfortable with a lot of the explicit content Burroughs presents throughout the novel. Also, the book is so scattered and all over the place, I think I would have a hard time keeping my essay from being scattered and all over the place. One positive thing that comes from the craziness of the novel is that the form is very interesting and provides a lot to be interpreted by the reader. Also, the scattered content has an overwhelming amount of imagery and details that could be used to connect the content to the form. The relationship between the two has to be strong to maintain some structure of the novel. I’ve used this blog to explore my ideas for my paper topic and as of now, I’m thinking about addressing Burrough’s use of metafiction and a nonconventional narrative discourse to expose William Lee’s spiraling life that is full of the what I’m going to refer to as “the 3 d’s”…dryness, death and dispair.
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