"White Noise"- Tom LeClair

Tom LeClair's "Closing the Loop" was one of the most helpful summaries by far. He does an excellent job of not only summarizing but analyzing this confusing story, "White Noise." He is able to describe very important but yet simple things to us such as when, where,who, and what. I got to have a great insight on the importance of the supermarket that was simply nothing to me at first. He warns us of the short, choppy fragmented sentences that DeLillo uses and how to interpret them too. Tom LeClair introduces new elements that he sees in "White Noise," "is structurally and stylistically simple; it lacks their spatil forms, temporal dislocation framed analogies, overlapping subtexts, and multiple voices." (LeClair pg.390) Le Clair gives us great insight however even after reading these closing articles I am still left with questions that I will have to go back and look for in "White Noise."    


DeLillo, Don. White Noise. New York: Penguin, 1998. Print.

White Noise

Mid-Term Check In

Dear Professor Cline,
 
      Overall, English does not happen to be my strongest subject. I struggle with it on a daily 

basis whether it's simple grammar and punctuation when writing or proper tense and use 

of a word during simple conversation. However, my biggest success thus far would easily 

be learning the world of blogging and creating my very own blog for this class. During this 

current semester I have been affected by the readings, particularly "A Modest Proposal," 

because until this class I had never read or even known what a satire was. When it comes to 

literary analysis I think I was like 99% of all other college students, meaning I did not 

understand the true differences between a summary and an analysis of a literary piece. I 

would simply summarize what I had read and feel as though  I had just delivered the most 

grandiose of an analysis. When it comes to the second half of this semester, my goals 

include fine tuning my analyzing skills along with improving my essay writing ability as 

well.  

Thank you for all that you have taught not only myself but the rest of the class this 

semester and I am looking forward to what the second have has to offer!