Blog Six

Quote: "Hi, she says finally, and like that you are done for, sunk, finished. This is love, and we don't need to explain the difference between love and a crush, because you are now and forevermore fully aware of that difference, in both it's vastness and it's details" (Currie Jr. 61)

Response/Personal: The context of this quote is taken from a time in the book where everything seems normal. There's no discussion of the world ending, there's no talk of drug addiction, Junior doesn't seem as gloomy as he does from the start of the book to the start of this section. This section of the book is again in the point of view of Junior who is talking about love and his high school experience. I've actually come to really like this book at this point because of all the jumping around from a baby and an umbilical cord, all the way to cocaine addiction, and now love. There doesn't seem to be a pause of any sort.






 
Analysis:The author uses a lot of descriptions in this section of the book. He uses the descriptions as a way to indirectly characterize the characters that are being introduced in this section that are important to Junior. He also uses word choice as a way for the reader to really feel how Junior is feeling at a given moment; like when Amy first said hi to him. The author also uses imagery in order for the reader to know how important some of the things junior notices about Amy are to him. " She is, at first glance, homely. her hair has a violent natural curl exacerbated by the shortness of it's cut, resulting in a dreadful rusty brown fro... But there is something remarkable about her homeliness, or rather something remarkable beneath it" (Currie Jr. 61).