Images of Addiction :: English Literature

Images of dependenceAddiction, craving, dependence, enslavement, habit,obsession these are some of the many an(prenominal) ways of describing a personsneed for something or someone. Addiction and the way its presented isthe main focus of two books, Junk by Melvin bourgeois a contemparynovel written in 1996 and The Man With The Twisted Lip by Sir ArthurConan Doyle, a short account statement from the Sherlock Holmes series written in1892. I will be comparing the two similarly themed stories and treathow they show images of addiction.Both of the books wasting disease many different techniques to make the story asrealistic and believable as possible. In Junk for each one chapter is writtenfrom the point of view of a different character in the 1st personnarrative. This style of piece gives the story a atomic pile of credibilityand often involves different characters telling the same event thofrom a completely different perspective. This is not just very enkindle for the reader i t also gives you the chance to get deepinto the characters heads and to find kayoed what they are thinking. Youcan also formulate your own opinions of characters as many of them,particularly Gemma, really involve the reader and try to talk them rhythm method of birth control to their points of view. In contrast The Man With The TwistedLip is very formal and written throughout by the same character, DrWatson. The details are very just written like a report of whathas happened with constant references to street call and timings togive the effect that everything in the story has really happened one utilization is found herself exactly at 435 walking through Swandom drivewayon her way back to the station.Another method the authors use to deal a sense of realism is thelanguage. In Junk there is a freshet of teenage slang and swearing bothin the dialogue and the text itself, which adds a sense that you aregetting the full truth except disturbing it may be, not a sugarcoated version. I also thought that the way the story was written asif the characters were public lecture to you worked really well because youfelt the characters were telling you, not just writing it down.Another important aspect of creating realism from the language was theway the characters began to use junkie slang, drug terminology,unheard of at the beginning of the novel but ballpark place by the end.This really helped to show how the lives of the main characters hadreally changed as the book progressed. Cultural references are alsoimportant because they help hoi polloi to relate to the story and put the