This assignment was a tough one for me, if anyone can help me with my thesis, I would greatly appreciate it. Although there is so much to pull from, I almost feel overwhelmed by it. I chose the motif, Fear of Death, which I thought would be easy to come up with a thesis. Any feedback will be much, much appreciated!!!
WHITE NOISE is a novel full of emotion, anxiety, and the
unknowingness toward the ultimate fear, death.
It is a novel that has a clarification of not everyone having a fear of
death, but an instinctive greed to continue life. Although modern life is attempting to push
this fear out of sight for Jack Gladney, he has a continued obsession with
death, the centerpoint of this novel.
The title is perfect for this novel, the definition being “any random,
collective occurrence of unrelated things”, summing up the significance of one
thought that can relate everything in this story, in this case being
death. From the beginning of the story,
when the college students are being dropped off by their parents at the
College-On-The-Hill to “The Airborne Toxic Event”, and further into the book,
Wilder thinking he is racing across the highway on his tricycle, are all
messages with meaning that Jack Gladney, along with his family, read into as
another stage toward the end of life.
I have attached a link regarding death, and the meaning to some people:
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Darcy, Your have a very good introduction in White Noise, but what is missing is your arguable thesis. What is it that the fear of death is saying about Jack, Babette, and society in general? What claim is DeLillo making with the motif of fear of death. Does the fear of death rule the life we are living? Is death a time limit, and therefore can be predicted? There are many ways to argue about death, but in all it is inevitable. I like what you have written so far, I have faith the right argument will come to you. Good luck. Leah
ReplyDeleteI like what you've got so far but it seems to have alittle too much information. I would have saved the definition for your next paragraph. All you need now the thesis statement. There are many ways you can go with this though. The way I'd decide would be in what way did the concept of death hit you the most? Was it the general idea that the characters seen it or was it only one of the characters ideas? Good Luck on your decision! (Don't worry, you're not alone on the struggle of writing this paper!!)
ReplyDeleteI agree with the above that it is a great opening to this essay but there seems to be no thesis. I think you have the start of one, but it starts to die out. Your thesis should be at the end and clearly stated. I think if you basically summarize your paragraph above (which seems to be what the rest of your essay will be about) then it will be a great thesis :)
ReplyDeleteAs I'm sure you're already aware of, you aren't the only one who is having troubles with writing this paper and it's sort of hard to come up with one thing to write about that actually makes sense when most of the book didn't quite make sense.
ReplyDeleteYou should make sure to put how Babette feels about death also.