Wednesday, April 13, 2011
One more thing...
I meant to mention this in class, but completely forgot about it. I felt that King's constant Pop Culture references made the characters more real. For instance, toward the end when someone says that noone thought Dr. Haskell was Dr. House, I laughed at this and completely understood what they meant. I'm not sure if anyone else felt this way, but I loved it. I think this is one of the nice things about reading stories written recently rather than in the 1800s. I feel like I can relate more to novels now, especially with things like references to shows and people I know. Also, I'm sorry that my posts keep being giant paragraphs rather than broken up. For some reason either my computer or this blog has decided that when I press the Enter button, it's a suggestion rather than a command...Fantastic. Any clues how to fix this?
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I got that vibe from the pop culture stuff too. It made the story easier to believe and really see as well.
The issue of using pop culture within the author's created world is actually really cool. In a lot of works, we have no idea what elements of culture are included and which are excluded. Many works seem to be completely isolated from any fictional works, leading to an impression of flatness.
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