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For J Horror I decided to read Lullaby, while I was reading it I really didn’t understand how it would relate to this weeks topic. But after the discussion in class I’m able to relate it.
I got a great sense of isolation from this genre, which Chuck Palahniuk captures beautifully in Lullaby. Every character in this book has been isolated from the world, especially the two biggest characters in this book, which is Helen and Streator. They both lost their family’s through the lullaby and are just trying to live on. Both live by themselves, don’t have any friends because they hate almost everyone they know. And of course they fall in love with each other, that kind of satisfies some of the loneliness in their lives, but even together they are a very isolated couple. And its not like they have the ability to have kids or anything since Helen turns into a man in the end.
Then there’s Mona and her boyfriend, who are isolated by their views of the world, especially in the end when they get the book they become Jesus and May, trying to make the world a better place in their own weird ways. There are a whole bunch of other characters in there that I can discuss, like the guy Streator gets tips from, and his boss, whom he kills with the culling song, but I could go on forever about that. That’s why I love this book though, because it was planned out in all of its finest detail. Every single character is so well rounded and has its own story. I could imagine their faces and the way they talked and acted.
Its a very dark book, like most of Palahniuk’s books, but he’s able to turns it into a satire. Yet it still poses a lot of stuff to think about, it makes you question humanity and the way everything is today because Palahniuk just makes fun of everything and everyone. Makes them seem stupid and makes the reader not want to be one of those people.