Visit From The Goon Squad

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The book is enjoyable to read because it shows not only the way Georgia lives, but what we can learn from the book as well. My experience with this book is beyond great and showed me how rough Georgia lived her life. She is independent to take care of herself. In the novel Georgia finds hope to do what

The part of the book that I found the least desirable was when George went out of his way to help out his two friends and older brother Garland. All three were staying there rent free until George received a $300.00 bill from long distance phone calls. He had confronted all three no one wanted to admit it. Although George had his suspicions, he asked everyone to move out. He needed his apartment back anyway to focus on his graduation from dental school. I felt that what they had done was not a nice thing for someone who has been a great friend to

In Chicago 2022 in this neighborhood there was the most dangerous criminal on the streets. He was famous, but he was low key famous. The people knew him but the cops had no idea there was a guy like this on the streets. He goes by black papa, but his real name was Ib ba. His house is small and trashy but he made it like that so people would think he had nothing but in his house he had million of money and thousand of drugs. In this part of Chicago there was gangs Ib was the leader of the 18th street gang. His gang had bob fish wasbi, Christan the destroyer, Devyn chill, and Pablo the quiet. Black papas gang was small but the other gangs wouldn't dare try to cross them Pablo the quiet was quiet but if u made

The switching points of view help form the world and breadth of the novel. Every chapter guarantees a new point of view and a new central character as parts of the methods of Egan’s madness. The opening chapter “…began the usual way…” (Egan, 1), with the character Sasha in third-person point of view like a typical novel. It exposes Sasha’s vulnerability and weakness, defined by her kleptomania, in an encounter with the character of Alex: “…the mix of feelings she’d had, standing there with Alex: the pride she took in these objects, a tenderness that was only heightened by the shame of their acquisition. She’d risked everything, and here was the result: the raw, warped core of her life” (15). Then, the novel closes with an older, reflective Alex and a glimpse into Sasha’s newfound strength and happiness. The end of the novel “…was

In a novel that jumps between periods of time and interchanges multiple characters, Lou Kline is one of the only consistent elements throughout the entirety of A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Lou is first portrayed hostily as a abhorrent, egocentric man who fears growing older. In the next chapter, the reader’s perception of Lou is altered from a sleazy man to a more paternal figure, and the reader understands that while Lou has done despicable things, he is not completely immoral. Altered again, the final image of Lou is that of pity - as a dying man, his failures are recounted and he is therefore at his most vulnerable. Egan’s non-linear structure of the novel allows the reader to see multiple sides of Lou Kline through different character perspectives, and in the end amplify the merciless effect time has on a destructive urge to remain youthful and assert dominance to “win” at everything.

I, personally, loved the author's writing, although I did not really understand why she structured the book like so. With each chapter changing different perspectives and stories, it was kind of hard to remember which chapter went with another considering the chapters where out of order. With each story, I was a little annoyed that they just suddenly ended at the end of the chapter. It made me want to read more and more trying to find the next chapter that went with that person's story. It was also kind of difficult to connect the stories. Other than that, she did a marvelous job grabbing my attention. I loved the analogies that she included in the stories. For example, on page 216- 217, one of the mothers told her daughter about a turtle that eats her tears and then creates birds that laugh

Using the story from The Outsiders (read in Reading class), brainstorm all the crimes from the book.

The films Gangs of New York and Far and Away are both similar and different. For example, both films depict a similar time period, but in a different location. The main characters in both movies have a similar heritage, but are a bit different personality-wise. Finally, in the beginning of the films, the main character wants revenge. However, Far and Away quickly resolves this issue while Gangs of New York continues this for the majority of the movie.

Will, the protagonist, was very likable as well. However, his character only evolved for me as a result of Harlen’s unconditional and relentless friendship with him. In short, Will’s character would’ve lacked without the likeness of a Harlen Bigbear. The character naming was also very ingenious. The Oldpersons, Prettywomans, baby South Wing, and others were interesting and clever last names that made the notion of identifying with the characters even more interesting and the reading, fun.

Another aspect that attracted me to novel was they way it was written. Although the book did have separate chapters, the way that it is written make the novel flow as if it was one big paragraph. There are moments in the story where characters converse but speech is not noted by quotation marks or paragraph breaks. This is a type of writing that even the most experience authors fail to accomplish, but Cole made it seem so effortless. Such a style of literature is bound to keep readers interested. If felt as if the reader was reading a diary versus a novel. Included in the novel includes forms of

Every work of literature requires a theme for it to be worth reading. Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad” mainly presents the theme of ruin and redemption throughout the novel. This theme is present alongside with other minor themes like the shift of American culture, and how the characters self-centered ways are crush by time. All of the major characters will find themselves at some sort of low point in their lives throughout the novel. Jocelyn becomes addicted to drugs and spends a great amount of her adult life going in and out of rehab; Benny will lose his record label contract and will be seen as a failure by most of those still in the industry; and Sasha will show falling into ruin due to her stealing addiction, self isolation from family, and lack of self-love. The idea of ruin and redemption is also present alongside the characters setting. Theses characters live in a post-9/11 New York City, where the towers are destroyed, the streets and rivers are polluted, and surveillance is amplified, making New York City reflect this theme in a mournful way. The same for the story “Goodbye, My Love”, Ted goes to Italy, and notes the ways Naples is degrading. Theses images of ruin, that the characters are consciousness of, are a representation of ruin in their own lives. Despite the self destruction that each character faces throughout the novel, a counterbalance for the self-destruction is created when a sense of redemption is introduced. Two of the stories main

My favorite part of the book was the warning signs to know when a stranger is a potential threat. This was fascinating to me because I’ve been told since I was just a little boy to beware of strangers. But with all these warnings about strangers I had never been told how to recognize when a

Within the short story The School by Donald Barthelme and the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan the characters all undergo difficult life situations that ultimately helps them find themselves and happiness in life. The young students within The School are surrounded by constant death, their fear of the future and death stops them from fulling enjoying life. “The class took it pretty hard, they began (I think, nobody ever said anything to me directly) to feel that maybe there was something wrong with the school” (Barthelme, 1). The school within the story doesn’t represent a physical school but rather life. Since the children are only seeing death around them they’re not able comprehend that life eventually gets better. The younger versions of the characters within A Visit from the Goon Squad are also afraid of what the future will have instore for them, they believe that their life will always be filled with pain and misery similar to the students. “I start to cry… The world is full of shitheads, Rhea… And I know that Lou is one of those shitheads. But I listen” (Egan, 57). Although Rhea knows that she shouldn’t take life advice from Lou she continues to listen to him, because she think no one will ever love her so the best she can do is take advice from “one of those shitheads” (Egan, 57). None of the characters within both stories realize that the difficult times that life bring helps define them into the person they’ll ultimately become. According to

Curtis’s ideas and use characters are surprisingly very well used and described during the story. In the first pages of the book, the reader already gets hooked to the story and wants to continue on. The reader is always presented with new problems or ideas especially with a character like Bud. The type of writing always keeps the reader attached to the story. Curtis even achieved to put some humor during the story, which made me laugh. His story is very well constructed and logic. I like his choice of characters and the plot in general. I easily read the book and never got confused on his writing. I highly recommend people to read this book. Adults and children can read it even if Christopher Paul Curtis wrote books for kids. In the books 250 pages, it consists of a very good story and interesting characters.