Chris' personal life was very complicated (we're still in the flashback). He was deeply in love with Anna, but she was involved with two other guys already. Just to spite her he started sleeping with some random girl. Then to add to all this, his past, which he would like to forget, catches up with him. His brother, Brian, shows up at the apartment building, causing disrupt. "At that point Brian almost lost control. I had to step between them"(Kunzru 128). Brian was a well to do man, someone who had enough power to make a political change, but did nothing which is why all of Chris' friends hate him. Brian comes with the news that their mother died. Chris goes to the cremation and is rejected by his father. Right then he turns his back on his brother and his father, leaving behind all that's left of his family.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Q3 Outside Reading #3
Mike is still running away from his home with Sam and Miranda. He is trying to reach Anna and talk about everything that happened before the police find him to bring him home. While on his trip he flashes back to his past again. Chris (Mike) becomes good friends with a guy named Sean. Through a series of events, including drug use, Chris is kicked out of the place he is staying and moves in with Sean. Sean's building doesn't really have permanent residents, people just come and go. Then we find out that Anna is staying there. The goal of everyone in the apartment building is to raise political awareness. "We'd feed a few people and make a political point: it would e an example of practical redistribution, a condemnation of consumer society", Chris recalls (Kunzru 105). Kunzru writes, "A second large antiwar demonstration was planned"(131).
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3 comments:
I find this book very interesting. Although the flash back's are confusing they keep me interested and eager to uncover his past. Your blogs give alot of information with out rambling on too much! Keep up the great posts!
I agree with Paige, the flashbacks do confuse me a bit. But I am most curious about how Chris's life will turn out without the support of his family. His mother is dead, his father rejected him, and he almost got into a fight with his brother. Family support is key in a stable life, and he doesn't have family support right now (or then? flashback???).
Thsi sounds like a thuroughly engaging book. Chris/Mike has an honorable goal, rasing political awareness, but he just keeps screwing up. He seems determined to destroy himself from what I interpret, sleeping with ramdom girls and drug usage. THe flashbacks uncover very valuble information on Mike and I think it will be interesting to continue finding out more.
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