Ir Blog Post 4- Summary

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.