Sunday, February 10, 2008

Disorder

The man in Simon Ortiz's "Travelling" is an example of the celebration of disorder which is attributed to postmodernism. This disorder is shown when Ortoz writes, "He writes their names on a letter pad, hurries to another source, asks the librarian for another book but it is out and he looks hurt and then he rushes back to the globe." Obviously this guy is a little looney. I mean he asks for a book, gets heartbroken, then scurries back over to the globe. Thats a little weird, there must be a little chaos and disorder going on up in his noggin. The second example of disorder is the places that are mentioned in the piece. Some make a little sense why they're mentioned together because they were locales during WWII. But some are just plain random, like Antarctica, and Alcapulco...those just dont make any sense to why they are together with the rest of the places.

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