Raymundo Ruvalcaba Professor Cody Deitz English 115 22 November 2014 Project Text Essay In everyday life most people just wake up and go to work get home do what they have to do and get ready to do it all over again. Most people don’t have time to think of death, but in ‘White Noise’ Jack Gladney the main character can’t go through a day without being consumed in it. The fear of death that haunts Jack Gladney throughout the novel distracts him from living his life, by creating his whole life to try to avoid it, but by doing that he engulfs himself with it even more creating an irony that Don Delillo is trying to expose with use of dramatic scenes and overall life decisions Jack Gladney has made. In the novel Jack is the department chair for …show more content…
He imprints a special scene within the book that shows how if you are unaware of the reality of death you can ignore it and even cheat a very likely death. During a part of the book Wilder somehow finds a way onto some kind of freeway on his tricycle. Wilder is about six years old and isn’t old enough to have a big picture idea about death so he went on to escape it by crossing a freeway on his tricycle without any injury. This is put into his book to show a person that if you just live your life, death is not a big problem; you can just live it without a constant anxiety about …show more content…
All those technologies and advertisements are there to distract the people. As I said in the beginning of my essay people don’t have time to think of death which is partly technology giving everyone something to do. In the novel although there is no specific moments where there are all watching T.V. it is assumed when many times there is commercials running in the background. Today many people sit brain dead watching T.V. In the reality of the T.V. They don’t need to think of reality like Jack does because instead of being indulged with T.V. he is indulged in the reality of