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Tuesday, February 24, 2004

DeLillo Questions

Sorry for the delay in posting DeLillo questions. I'm recovering a bit from a relapse of whatever flu has been haunting me this winter. Here are a few questions to consider for your blog entries on DeLillo. I'd strongly suggest building whatever entry you write from a specific passage rather than from a general recollection of the text. Quoting from the novel will be looked upon with great favor.
  1. Consider the passage on page 46 in which Jack reflects on his trip to the bank (which came up in one class--sorry for the memory lapse). How do you read Jack's discussion of "the networks, the circuits, the streams, the harmonies" (46)?
  2. On page 50, Jack and Murray discuss the pratcice of watching television, with Murray commenting that he and his students endeavor to "find the codes and the messages" (50). How does this discussion fit within the novel's consideration of mass media?
  3. Discuss any images of Jack and his family's shopping trips
  4. What images of family does the novel offer? How do you interpret these images
You should probably read up to about page 100 by Friday.
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