Blog 13

I chose to have American Psycho as my reader’s choice because personally it was one of my favorite novels during adolescences. I feel like the novel encompasses many ideas we have learned throughout the course of this class. I also was a huge fan of the novel. I read the book in 8^th grade but really couldn’t understand what was going on at the time and some of the vocabulary was a little too advanced for my age at the time which was 14 but I still found what I understood fascinating. Eventually I saw the movie I was senior in high school and it made me fall in love with the story all over again and I decided to read the book again. I didn’t actually end up reading it until my freshman year in college. Now that I have read it again with a better understanding of some of the vocabulary I saw it in a different light.

The novel encompasses many themes that I feel relate to horror. I feel like it touched more on the idea of hysteria and mental illness which I feel should have maybe been a section for us in our readings, preferably during horror. There are horror elements to the story and I wish we could have gotten into some stories like this! I feel like the novel reflects back unto humanity through many different ways. One of the themes in it includes the idea of a materialistic and capitalist mindset, which drives people crazy. It shows how no matter what we have and how much we have of it we can still be unhappy and hurting deep down inside. Another is the idea of if we lost touch with reality what would happen to us and how would others perceive it. All around this story really means a lot to me and that’s why I chose it.