Blog 7

Philip Roth uses a number of techniques in his writings, especially in The Plot Against America. MY group and I discussed how he would write this book sort of like a history book with factual information regarding dates and people and situations, and then soon after, he would bring it down a notch and talk about these situation in a more personal realm, usually by telling how a character is personally experiencing the situation. Also, we talked about in class how in The Invisible Man, Ellison uses musical lyrics that are layered and in different voices to give a stereographic affect to his writing. You don’t hear the entire thing, but you hear each line separately. This gives a sense of stereographic plurality.