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DeLillo, Death, and Revision

 

The writing process for this essay has been just that, a process. I have rearranged and revised my essay countless times and yet it still doesn't seem right.  I don’t know if I just fight the essay and the process to much or if my OCD just keeps getting in the way.  I have learned with this essay that I do need to follow an outline more because of the way DeLillo writes.  He actually puts a lot of information in his story so in order to make my essay clear and have learned how to write a clear and concise outline.  

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Death & DeLillo



 

By César Astudillo from Collado Villalba, Spain (Suddenly, a black rose) [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Death, the Final Frontier

Death is a subject that most people want to avoid even thinking about.   Most people don’t want to acknowledge that they are mortal, so even if it is brought up in a group the subject is usually changed very quickly.  In Don DeLillo’s “White Noise” the subject of death is brought to the reader’s attention by the main character, Jack when he asks “Who will die first?” (DeLillo, 15)  He is referring to the conversations him and his wife, Babette, have on a regular basis.  While the fear of death is natural, the message that comes out of the book is not that death is terrifying; it is the unknown that holds the true fear.  The unknown of when it will happen, what happens to the decedent’s soul or the unknown of what happens to the loved ones still living.  In DeLillo’s book, he explores these feelings and thoughts through his characters in a way that if could apply to anybody who has taken the time to contemplate the end of life.

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