LIT JRN 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Norman Mailer, True Crime, True Life
22 Jun 2019
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Transition to executioner"s song where he doesn"t focus on himself. Transcended the idea of true crime - true life novel . Writing from the pov of the character without quotations. Writing about the character but using his own voice. Suspense for the murder not if it will happen but when. Replication of adam and eve and the forbidden apple tree. The fall of innocence brenda falling out of the apple tree. Match the subject matters way of speaking. Writing about true crime in the west. Women have the strongest voices in the west. All the men got shot and the woman pass on the stories. Missed out when he was in jail. Time freezes and continues once he is out. Is it worth it to risk the safety of the public. Better to give second chances to younger offenders. Don"t know how romand became a sociopath.
