Thursday, March 15, 2012
I've been researching and researching for this new project I just stepped into for class. I finally decided to do it on John Lennon's death vs. The Catcher in the Rye. It's actually really interesting and a little eerie. I definitely recommend the book Let Me Take You Down if you are interested in reading about insane murder stories. Mark David Chapman is quite a character and it's a hard book to put down. There is just something about reading non-fiction that gets my brain all worked up. I guess in my head I just keep thinking, "this is real, this is real stuff." It's hard to believe sometimes. There are real recorded interviews all throughout it, which makes for an even more interesting read.
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What is the correlation between Lennon and "The Catcher in the Rye"? Are you thinking about a literary analysis of Salinger thought the lens of Lennon's death?
ReplyDeleteThat sounds like a fascinating book. Twisting fiction and non-fiction.
ReplyDeleteIt is interesting how fiction can sometimes speak to us on deeper levels than non-fiction can. Perhaps it is because of the intesified amount of creative effort it takes to write fiction. Maybe when the writer by reaching into themselves to pull out a story they pull out a certain depth of emotion too, something like raw humanity.
There is quite a bit of correlation between many details of his death and Chapman's obsession with "The Catcher in the Rye." It's a lot to get into. I didn't do a literary analysis of Salinger. I just did a basic research paper, I guess? I really tried to get into the mind of Chapman and tried to see where his obsession with killing Lennon came from. He suffered from some mental disorders, but his obsession with that novel was what he was really trying to follow. I don't know if you've read that book, but the main character Holden is trying to find his way through life and one of the things he figures out is that he hates how "phony" people are. Chapman was angry with Lennon, because he accused Lennon of being a phony and being contradicting to what he preached by living in nice houses and having a lot of money. That's where it all started. It's really interesting to get into. I recommend reading that book if you are in fact interested.
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ReplyDeleteI find it interesting as well. I think that maybe fiction is always just fiction. People go through things in their life that effect many aspects of their life. Experiences that happen in real life can definitely play some part in any type of written story. I guess it is possible to write a completely fictitious story, but authors are inspired by something right? Maybe not even their own lives, but maybe by another's? I wonder if Salinger actually held truth in what Holden went through. It's an extremely universal book, because we all go through a stage where we are trying to find ourselves.