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I immediately found it’s relevancy to\u00a0White Noise<\/em>. Throughout the novel, we see\u2014several times\u2014almost this same exact scene occurring between Jack and Babette.\u00a0 In the video we see Hitler and Braun almost playing a game in order to see who will \u201ctake the pill\u201d and die first. This video is clearly a satiric portrayal of how Jack holds his relationship with Babette as well as his own personal fear of death.<\/p>\n Page 15, is the first page in which we witness Jack asking the always-philosophical question of \u201cWho will die first?\u201d This question lingers within the characters throughout the entire novel. On page 239 we see it again with, \u201cI told her the basic story, leaving out the tears, the passions, the terror, the horror, my exposure to Nyodine D., Babette\u2019s sexual arrangement with Mr. Gray, our argument over which of us feared death more.\u201d This is a most obvious moment when we see the fear of death between Babette and Jack. They both wonder who will die first and constantly discuss it throughout the entire novel, making it one of the main themes. Love is a strong thing, most often unbreakable\u2014unless you live in our day and age when marriage can be divided more frequently than a human stem cell. But regardless, everyone in a marriage wonders what life would be like without their spouse. What obstacles they would need to overcome, what problematic situations they would encounter when alone, after the one person who was supposed to be there, now isn\u2019t.<\/p>\n Getting back to the video, we see Eva Braun and Adolph Hitler deciding the final way out of the mess that they have involved themselves in. Ironically deciding through an almost child game-like approach to find their solutions. Yet despite their both inherent will to die first, both are reluctant to take the pill. \u00a0In a same way we can see Jack and Babette acting in the same fashion. Both know that something bad is bound to happen to either of them, yet they debate and rationalize their deaths between one another.<\/p>\n We all fear death, we all fear being alone; the one left after the smoke clears and the skies become blue again. Its brings us back to the acknowledgement of change and how it brings us to question all our ideals and beliefs. We fear change for the unknown things it may bring. For the tempting desire we yearn for. And for the lust of the unknown that we all search for. Jack and Babette are prime examples of the human mind and it\u2019s desire to know the ever-pertinent question of \u201cwhat if?\u201d A question that will bewilder many of us for years to come unless we learn to face the inevitable truth, in which we must all eventually understand the debt that all men must pay\u2014death.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" While watching an episode of family guy the other day, I stumbled upon this clip: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RCn7Xk_6sb8 I immediately found it’s relevancy to\u00a0White Noise. Throughout the novel, we see\u2014several times\u2014almost this same exact scene occurring between Jack and Babette.\u00a0 In the video we see Hitler and Braun almost playing a game in order to see who… Continue reading Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":548,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samplereality.com\/gmu\/fall2009\/459\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}