Blog about something you found interesting in the text.
One of the things that I found particularly interesting about the book Johnny got his gun was that the book used no commas whatsoever, none, nada, zilch. This gives the reading a terse shortness that makes it almost unique among books. Some places polysyndeton is used to replace the commas, other places the reader is left to figure out the meanings of the sentences on their own. I found this book powerful because I felt like I was trapped in Joe’s head. As a result I viewed the book from Joe’s perspective. This was extremely unsettling, I had to think what I would do if I were in Joe’s situation, and I realized that there was nothing I would do, because their was nothing I could do. This freaked me out because the loss of control over the one thing I have control over in my universe would be unbearable.
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Good blog Chris. I also wrote about the lack of punctuation in the book. In my opinion it makes for a much easier read. I like how you incorporated some of the tones we talked about, like polysyndeton. I agree that you feel trapped in Joe's head, and it is indeed a very freaky feeling. Good job!
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