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Comparing Neuromancer And Count Zero

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As we grow and experience much in our lives as individuals, we tend to miss the linguistic and detail in our life. Through poetry, novels, and short stories, we capture that missing part of our life in such a way, many of us have never fathomed before. Through the eyes of author, William Gibson, writer of the novel, Count Zero, we observe through his eyes, “ larger patterns of art emerge, for the masterful writer is concerned not only with the effects of language on the page, but also the relationships of that language to broader understandings and knowledges which give the literary work its cultural echoes and social significance”, when someone other than our self explains true detail that will give the reader more experience of feel for what …show more content…

In his novels, he tried to teach us how to live, by means through a fictional, yet very real world in his own world of Neuromancer and Count zero. Although his novels were thirty years ago, the impact that he referenced the future, he used the technology at the time and advancements to come in order to create the world we read from his novels. Gibson is solely responsible for the shaping on the way we, as individuals, who are familiar with his work view the internet. He utilized his books in sucha way any authors have taken in account by understanding his detail, metaphors and, “at the same time that Count Zero shares much with Gibson's earlier work, however, it also marks a number of departures for him. These occur at the levels of theme, characterization, narrative structure, and technique. One of the most interesting shifts in theme centers on Gibson's interrogation of mind/body dualism”, stated by “The …show more content…

We view the world Gibson created with such vivid detail that us as readers can imagine and visualize as the characters in the novel unfold as the plot grows, with a suspenseful twist in the end, that concludes with a happy ending. Gibson’s use of detail when describing the characters in the beginning is so vivid and active as if we can sight the character off the street; for example, “Josef Virek was perched below her on one of the park’s serpentine benches, his wide shoulders hunched in a soft topcoat. His features had been vaguely familiar to all her life. Now she remembered, for some reason, a photograph of Virek and the king of England. He smiled at her. His head was large and beautifully shaped beneath a brush of stiff dark gray hair. His nostrils were permanently flared, as though he sniffed invisible winds of art and commerce. His eyes, were very large behind the round, rimless glasses that were a trademark, were pale blue and strangely soft”(114). The immense amount of detail included into Count Zero is electrifying. Giving the reader a vivid image in order to furthermore understand his point, in order to get his reasoning for describing with such detail of each character that also influenced the way we thought about each character individually and with such unique

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