Wesley yang employs several narratives that serve to paint a viewing angle for the incedent at Virginia Tech. While written in a somewhat journalistic form, the author includes a personal and subjective voice to the various narratives. The range of his emotion is different from sentence to sentence, at times being humorous and other times lecturing.
Each story he gives serves as a form of symbololism of every day life that the reader in turn applies to information the author assumes the reader already knows. At times, the reader may forget what the peice is primarily about as she reads page after page about his friend Samuel until the reader's eyes shift back across the page and catch the title.
This seemingly disconnected feeling between some of the narratives also serves as a mechanism to incite thought on the reader's part.
-Brian Walker
I thought it was a strange, but definitely compelling piece, though the subject matter is certainly a bit disturbing. The sort of disconnect between the different factors of the piece was something I noticed too, but I really didn't think too much about when I was actually reading, maybe because I got a bit too caught up in it to notice.
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