The most difficult thing about the power haunt inquiry was trying to reign in all the ways that the single power haunt (in my case, the ATM) related to million other themes in the novel.\u00a0 The novel is so dense that a single paragraph can allude to millions of different ideas.\u00a0 It was also difficult to pin down exactly how the place was a “power haunt” or a “source.”\u00a0 Even Gladney himself didn’t really understand why certain things and places had a mystical, spiritual element to them.\u00a0 Trying to talk about all of these themes within a coherent argument with a logical structure was tough.\u00a0 Themes branch out and connect in non-linear ways.<\/p>\n
In writing this inquiry, I ended up thinking about themes in the novel I hadn’t expected to discuss or even find in the passage I was analyzing.\u00a0 For example, I discussed a seemingly random line about the deranged man being escorted out of the bank within the paragraph in which Gladney discussed his ATM transaction.\u00a0 That led me to compare the state-mandated insanity of the crazies in the insane asylum and the zany citizens of Blacksmith who are allowed to roam free.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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