Saturday, March 26, 2011
To be or not to be?
The two stories I chose were “The Girl Who Kissed Barnaby Jones” and “Kinship”. The first one seemed more noir than the second in the way that Cherie called Tate to come over to help her with something. She tried to get him to do something he wasn’t comfortable with thereby causing him to have to choose between right and wrong. It starts on page 295, when Cherie starts telling Tate that he will help her dispose of the man’s body. He even goes so far as to shoot at him for not wanting to help her. In this way I feel that this story has more if the noir feel. The second story, and did anyone notice that there were no quotation marks at all in the entire story? What is that all about? I felt this story didn’t live up to noir because there wasn’t the femme fatale/protagonist play going on. This story felt like it was one brother helping another. I didn’t at all have the choosing right or wrong element to it. But was more about the family loyalty thing. No one asked Tomas for help, he took it upon himself to avenge his cousins’ son. On page 308, Tomas gets the man that beat up Manny in his truck and then takes him to where Manny is so that he could pay him back. At the end when Manny couldn’t do it Tomas does it for him
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yeah i agree with you because the first story did give it a strong noir feeling especially because Cheri that crazy woman.
ReplyDeleteThat's true i did notice that from Kinship their was not much of quotations it just seamed like long paragraphs.
Even though i didn't choose or read the second story that I believe Vikki is talking about is cleary the one that isn't Noir. All though i did read the first one the girl who kissed barnaby jones was cleary Noir to me because of the use of the Femme Fatale. But i liked how the man Mr. Tate didn't fall for her sex appeal and charms and instead did what he thought was to be right and try and save Gary. Even though he was the ambigous protaginst person in the story he listened to his consience.
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