Lot 49, Final
Open discussion on The Crying of Lot 49, or links to cool supplemental material will be credited also.AP LIT
Review for Final, 50 points.
25 multiple choice questions over the novels we’ve read this semester (The Crying of Lot 49, One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Bear, Ethan Frome, Turn of the Screw, Love is the Best Medicine, Rape of the Lock, Volpone, Candide). Be familiar with the author, year, plot, major characters, and elements of style of particular note in each novel. No Reading Journal, no texts.
Essay worth 25 points over The Crying of
posted by erdecker @ 9:39 PM
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I think overall that this novel is unlike all the others we've read and studied so far. This is the first novel, although others were written during this time (OHYOS), that actually seems to represent the times. It uses slang such as "have at" or "got it out for" when referring to wanting to fight Pasquale. It also uses more profanity than other stories have. I think the references to drugs and alcohol are a relatively new subject for our class also. They have referred to LSD, marijuana, and tequila sours.
With the exception of those, I think something that this novel has in common with others we've read is the question of their sanity. I found myself wondering about whether Oedipa was insane or if perhaps it was all of them. But there are definitely references to paranoia and other mental illnesses. In Turn of the Screw, we often questioned not only the mental state of the main character but also those of the children, Mrs. Grose, and others. In The Bear, I wondered about Boon quite often because he seemed to lose it towards the end of the novel. Questioning the sanity of characters in OHYOS seemed to be a frequent occurance. That novel was so unlike anything I've ever read, that I didn't know what to believe in sometimes.
Other similarities could be how the main character's point of view influences the story.
Cassandra
To steal some points off of Cassandra's post...
This novel part of the post-modern movement. Which means after the modern era ended, sometime around the mid 1900's. So slang terms might be more common that usual.
Relating to the drug usage, if you think of the time frame that this should be in, the beginnings of post-modernism is right near the so-called "hippie movement." And we all know the lifestyles that hippies lived out. Free Tibet man...
And continuing along with Thomas Pynchon's style of writing within this story, he seems to capture what the "stream of consciousness" truly is.
Highly doubtful that us humans think in very highly intelligent terms when perceiving things.
And bringing something new to the table, The Crying of Lot 49 doesn't really present anything new regarding taboo subjects. Sure, there's the affair, drug addiction, and simple craziness, but the literature we've read in the past always seems to bring something that society views as taboo.
I did not see such a thing, unless I am mistaken, feel free to correct me.
Oh and the names. Such hilarity.
-Hottie Latana
I think the Bear and Lot 49 share a theme in that the original intent of the main characters gives way to a new plot halfway through the book. More specifically, Ike breaks off from the hunting narrative and starts researching his family history in the leather books. Oedipa's role concernning the will is almost completely lost and she branches off to a new goal of figuring out the meaning of the Tristero.
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