Stephan King The Jaunt
First I want to write something about the two storylines and why the text is build up like that. Next I want to tell something about the characters and the setting.
At last I want to tell something about the themes and the problems the future might bring.
The father and the professor tell the their own part of the story. The father tells his story in the present tense and the professor tells his story in the past tense. I think he road it that way to keep us curious. When the story is told by another angle we are always curious on what is going to happen next. It also gives the story some life I think. Also we don’t know anything about the Jaunt and we want to know what it is and what it does. Again we are curious. The story is build up like a movie. When the story chances it is like a movie, there is chancing to another scene and it works really great and we want to read more. The story could be a bit boring if it was just a conversation between Mark and
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In this story that is the Victor Carune. The story is build up around his story and how he made the Jaunt. It could also be the father who is telling the story about him to his children, but I would say that it is Victor. He was the man who invented the Jaunt. He wanted to solve the energy crises on Earth and that it is why he invented the Jaunt.
Next we have the antagonist, but there is not a real antagonist in the text there is against Victor Carune. There is a lot of badguys there is testing the Jaunt but they are not really against Victor and he’s work.
Then there are the minor characters. In that category we find the mother and the daughter who are just listening to the story and the daughter asks some questions when there is something she don’t understand, and the mother comes only with a few comments here and there.
The government is the flat character. They want the Jaunt and want to use it for the public and make more of them so everybody can use