Informative Analysis Of The Human Fly

Informative Analysis of The Human Fly The Human Fly by T.C. Boyle tells the story of a man who wants to be a famous superhero. The text deals with morality, mental illness and loss. This essay demonstrates an analysis of how these elements are interpreted and describes how the life lessons of this text can be applied to reality. This essay will provide a description of the text, audience, language, theme and purpose to evaluate the value of a human life.
The genres of this text are short story, adventure and young adult. The text provides the reader with fast-paced action stunts and keeps the reader wondering what will happen next in the 19 pages. It tries to resonate with young adults or people that once were by mimicking the short and sweet sentences of most young adult books and capturing the quirky, fun elements with its zany characters. This serves to remind people of their books they used to love or are currently loving.
The Human Fly describes the story of a man with big dreams, despite having no actual superpowers. Zoltan is first seen as a nutcase wearing a ratty, super suit he threw together, however he is later seen as an extraordinary man due to his death-defying stunts.

He includes a first person viewpoint so the reader is able to feel connected to the characters and see them as living people in order to have the reader sympathize with their tragedy. His resigned tone shows that the death of Zoltan is inevitable and the reader is able to understand how deeply the death affected the agent, whose attempts to help were futile. This allows the reader to feel sympathy for the characters that become trapped in Zoltan’s tangled web and contempt for Sol who encouraged the death by taking advantage of his mental instability. Boyle foreshadows the death by using words such as “vulnerable, fragile, frail, emaciated and spindly” which describes how Zoltan looked during his tragic