Monday, April 8, 2013

CHAPTER 31

I'D JUST LIKE TO SAY: The fact that we have "free reign" on this post excites me more than I think it probably should on account of the fact that I've been finding most of the book as of late, very lengthy, drug out and unnecessarily wordy and figurative at all the wrong times.
That is, except for what I chose to blog about this time:

"Nothing much else happened, all the rest of that night."

   That was the entire chapter 31 of this book. I think it was an important aspect though. It clarifies that time did pass, things did happen, though things not worth telling and things we will never know. Life went on through all this madness. In a sense, I think it helped me connect to the story and characters a little more. Knowing that Will, in the midst of the chaos his life had become, still had those dull, everyday moments that we all have to suffer through. Now, this could have absolutely gone without saying, but the fact that the author did put this in here as an entire chapter (shorter than what I'm saying about it now) draws attention to the fact that this is the story of some (fictional) person's life. It makes it seem more real, more personal and more plausible.
   I also found it fairly amusing.

1 comment:

  1. I think this chapter was added so that the tally of chapters (54) equals Charles Halloway's age. I imagine Bradbury getting to the end of his writing with Chapter 53 and then adding the new Chapter 31 to stretch the total.

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