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This scene was a very tense and serious moment in the book. This scene, as shown through the movie, was when there is a big argument between the attorney and the waitress of a diner. The attorney was being rude so the waitress lashed out. The attorney got angry so he threatened the waitress with his knife. The waitress became terrified as if she was having a flashback. You could inference from the novel that the waitress acted like she had been in that situation before. She must deal with drug addicts a lot at that diner. What I could not figure out however is was it the drug that drove the attorney to act that way or was he actually angry?

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“They work in pairs,” said my attorney. “Sometimes in gangs. They’ll climb right into your bedroom and sit on your chest, with bowie knives.”(145)

I thought this was a very interesting conversation in the story. It was with the attorney, who is high on several drugs, talking to an oblivious police officer who has no idea that the man he is talking to is a crazy dangerous drug addict. It is instances like this that keeps the story on edge. These two men who are involved with so many drugs are at a police drug conference in Las Vegas. Taking risks is a huge theme in this novel and this is truly shown within this scene.

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The end of the novel was quite interesting, confusing, and intriguing all at the same time. The attorney and the narrator finally get rid of Lucy by paying a cab driver to take her to another hotel. She eventually calls them at the Flamingo but Dr. Gonzo makes up a story to get her off their backs and leave them alone. Right while Dr. Gonzo does this the narrator takes pure Adrenaline. This is the craziest drug any of them have done. They compare it to mescaline and say mescaline is nothing in comparison to this adrenaline. The narrator takes the drug and from then on the novel describes the crazy things he is seeing. Not only does the room change around him but so do the people he encounters. Peoples' appearances completely change proving that this drug can completely change someone's state of mind. Eventually the narrator wakes up with a completely ruined hotel room. He walks around with a tape recorder of what he heard while he was tripping on the many dangerous drugs that he used over the time period. While listening and recollecting the narrator goes through many flash backs and begins to remember his crazy drug experience. It is a miracle that the two were not arrested because they went all around Vegas drugged out of their mind, messing with different people such as Dr. Gonzo screaming at the couples in the car on the Las Vegas strip.

I think that Lucy is a great symbol used I the novel for paranoia. She is just like the hitch hiker from the beginning of the story. When the narrator and his attorney run into either of them they freak out and just drive the other direction. Another symbol used in the novel was the two different nice cars that they got. It’s a symbol for living the good life and having a lot of freedom to do whatever they please.

This novel about two characters traveling is very similar to many of the books we have already read for our senior year. A key theme in the novels we have read so far is trips and all about traveling. During these trips and journeys that the characters take, whether it be physical or mental, it always lands them somewhere other than where they started. In the motorcycle diaries Ernesto turns into Che. In Invisible Man the narrator completely changes throughout the novel. In Fear and Loathing the narrator and Dr. Gonzo experience so much throughout their trip and basically lose their minds by the end of the book.

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Here is a picture of the narrator in the movie at the police convention. It is a little ridiculous because all of these dressed up officers are in this nice hotel resort and then the narrator strolls in with several different drugs in his system and he looks like a hippie. He is not dressed nicely at all and is not trying to fake who he is at all. I find this funny because it is surprising neither him nor the narrator have gotten caught yet because they seem to stand out so much. The narrator and attorney really risk a lot by doing what they do and don't seem to be too afraid to take their chances.

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"She was not right for us-not in this fragile situation" (Page 115)

This is a great quote to describe how the narrator and now the attorney feel about Lucy. The attorney definitely made a mistake for picking her up because they believe that now they can get caught for drugs and kidnap. They were already doing highly dangerous drugs at a police convention. It was risky enough as it was and now they have to worry about this young girl and if she will complicate their situation even further.

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This section of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was extremely exciting but in a much different way than usual. Earlier in the book the characters were just parading around Las Vegas on all different types of drugs. It was exciting to see the different ways they would react to these drugs. The narrator and attorney are reunited and back at it in Las Vegas. They are still doing drugs but the descriptions of their trips aren't as vivid as before. Now the main context of the story is about how they feel about different things. For instance the character Lucy is introduced in this section. She was a nice church girl that happened to get picked up by the attorney and now she is tripping on acid and a complete mess. The characters eventually try to ditch her because they believe she will get them caught by the law.

Another reason this section is exciting is because the main two characters are doing wild drugs at a police conference. There are police officers from all over the country at the Flamingo in Las Vegas and these two crazy characters are tripping on various drugs in the presence of the officers.

I feel that Lucy represents the two characters getting caught. I believe she is a bad omen and her presence will bring the two bad fortune. I just get a feeling that with her around, the narrator and the attorney will run out of luck soon enough. This symbol relates closely to the theme that all fun has to come to an end. I believe that the two characters will eventually have to be serious, stop taking drugs, and fix the problems that they have created.

RAFT Peru

A poem from Ernesto to me about the people of Peru

Hello Carl Krause.
These people of Peru do not even have a house.
It is so sad
I am not feeling rad.

We have been traveling all around
From Estaque to Cuzco
I have slept on the ground
Alberto is with me like my bro

There are so many Indian people here
Expanding my horizon is nothing to fear
At this point i don't know if ill go back
living in Argentina again seems pretty wack

This land is full of irony
With a beautiful landscape but poverty all over
Its a nice place to be but at the same time it is not
I don't know how i'll leave them behind
It makes me feel fortunate for the life I was given

We run into trouble with many issues
but find different ways to fix it
like when we needed a cure
and used coco leaves

Native indians are so spiritual
they live life like ive never seen before
they live off our planet and mother nature
they want nothing more

society is corrupt
it needs to be fixed
problems will always erupt
unless we make a change