In Mr. Tangen's class earlier last week and this week, we discussed how The Crying of Lot 49 is very satirical and makes fun of many different types of things. While reading chapter three of this book, I found myself concentrating more on what satirical pieces I could find, more than actually reading the book for what the story was about. After realizing that this was as a terribly bad idea, I began to reread the chapter, but I still asked myself many questions that I can't seem to answer.
As I've come to learn from Mr. Tangen's class, NOTHING in books and movies are done without a purpose, so Pynchon clearly is trying to prove a point or make us ask ourselves questions. When I first came across this image, I stopped reading and took a look at it. I am very used to seeing images while reading books, but they normally relate to the text. I could not make any valid relationship with this image, and this made me start asking myself many questions on why Pynchon is using this image.
This was not the first time in this book that I ask myself why things are presented the way they are. After realizing that this has become a current occurrence in the book, I wonder if Pynchon is using this to reel us into reading more of his book. Suspense is a tool that is many times used because it keeps the reader or viewer interested in the movie or book. Although in The Crying of Lot 49, we aren't necessarily waiting for something to happen, we do want to know what all of these signs and hints that are given to us really mean.
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