Images of Addiction :: English Literature

Images of AddictionAddiction, craving, dependence, enslavement, habit,obsession these are some of the many ways of describing a personsneed for something or someone. Addiction and the way its presented isthe master(prenominal) focus of twain books, Junk by Melvin Burgess a contempary fable create verbally in 1996 and The patch With The Twisted Lip by Sir ArthurConan Doyle, a short horizontal surface from the Sherlock Holmes series written in1892. I will be comparing the two similarly themed stories and discusshow they show images of addiction.Both of the books use many contrasting techniques to make the story asrealistic and believable as possible. In Junk each chapter is writtenfrom the point of view of a distinguishable character in the 1st personnarrative. This style of writing gives the story a lot of credibilityand often involves different characters telling the akin event butfrom a completely different perspective. This is not vindicatory unfeignedlyinteresting fo r the reader it also gives you the chance to get blockheadedinto the characters heads and to find out what they are thinking. Youcan also formulate your proclaim opinions of characters as many of them,particularly Gemma, really involve the reader and try on to talk themround to their points of view. In contrast The Man With The TwistedLip is very formal and written throughout by the same character, DrWatson. The details are very precisely written like a report of whathas happened with everlasting references to street names and timings togive the effect that everything in the story has really happened oneexample is found herself exactly at 435 pass through Swandom Laneon her way back to the station.Another order the authors use to convey a sense of realism is the lyric. In Junk in that location is a lot of teenage slang and swearing bothin the dialogue and the text itself, which adds a sense that you aregetting the exuberant truth however disturbing it may be, not a swagcoat ed version. I also thought that the way the story was written asif the characters were talking to you worked really well because youfelt the characters were telling you, not just writing it down.Another historic aspect of creating realism from the language was theway the characters began to use junkie slang, drug terminology,unheard of at the beginning of the novel but common place by the end.This really helped to show how the lives of the main characters hadreally changed as the book progressed. Cultural references are alsoimportant because they help people to relate to the story and put the