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"Turmoil"
The blended family of six are living in a nice home near the College-on-the-Hill where Jack Gladney is the chairman of the department of Hitler studies. The family have a lot of thought about death and dieing and what will be the cause of their own demise.
Babette, Jack's wife, has a daughter named Denise and she likes to keep track of her mother and finds out that her mother is taking a medication that she is unable to figure out what it is named Dylar. Denise questioned Jack as to what Dylar was but he wasn't able to tell her either. Jack was not aware of Babette being on any medication by that name.
There was a train tanker that derailed and spilled a chemical called Nyodene D and Jack doesn't think that his family will be effected by the spill because they live in a nice neighborhood, but of course it does come their way and they have to evacuate. While they are evacuating Jack gets exposed to the Nyodene D for two and a half minutes while he is pumping gas and when they arrive at the safe location he has to talk with "SIMUVAC (Simulated evacuation)" (p 139) team and Jack learns that it can take 30 years before he could die from the exposure to the chemical.
The link I added to the word turmoil above will take you to SparkNotes that gives an overview of the book and helped me understand better what this all was meaning. The picture made me think of the billowy cloud of chemical when the train derailed.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. Penguin Books, 1985. Print.
Babette, Jack's wife, has a daughter named Denise and she likes to keep track of her mother and finds out that her mother is taking a medication that she is unable to figure out what it is named Dylar. Denise questioned Jack as to what Dylar was but he wasn't able to tell her either. Jack was not aware of Babette being on any medication by that name.
There was a train tanker that derailed and spilled a chemical called Nyodene D and Jack doesn't think that his family will be effected by the spill because they live in a nice neighborhood, but of course it does come their way and they have to evacuate. While they are evacuating Jack gets exposed to the Nyodene D for two and a half minutes while he is pumping gas and when they arrive at the safe location he has to talk with "SIMUVAC (Simulated evacuation)" (p 139) team and Jack learns that it can take 30 years before he could die from the exposure to the chemical.
The link I added to the word turmoil above will take you to SparkNotes that gives an overview of the book and helped me understand better what this all was meaning. The picture made me think of the billowy cloud of chemical when the train derailed.
DeLillo, Don. White Noise. Penguin Books, 1985. Print.
Oh no! Your link is spoiler country big time. Best warn folks. I totally have the bit where he is talking about how only poor trailer folk will be killed by the giant death cloud written down in my hilariously long page of notes.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good breakdown of the plot. I like that you mention that Jack's exposure could take 30 years to kill him. He could be hit by a bus the next day and die, yet he panics because he has been given a time limit on his life. It's funny how a reminder on how short life is can make someone focus on death to such a degree. Good post. :)
ReplyDeleteToni, This is a great summary. I believe you broke it down perfectly. Although I did not see an Analysis.
ReplyDeleteI like you had to revert to sparknotes to somewhat understand what this book was really saying. I like the picture that you chose for the spill, although I thought that it was more of the Bruce Willis type explosion. Good luck on the essay!
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