Contrast

Brian Huynh

I disagree with you about how the morals of the story are contrasting each other. Like how I said in my last post, I believe that the morals correlate each other quite well. I think that discovering the American dream also relates to you finding your voice because to succeed in one of these morals, you would have to succeed in the other one. This is why I believe that the morals of both of these stories is not a contrasting aspect, but a similar aspect. But there is one aspect which I agree with you, the way the two books were written were a completely different way of writing. You were right on how The Rum Diary was more of a "good guy, bad guy" sort of writing style. Kemp was portrayed as a "good-guy" because of he was trying to do and what he was believe was right. In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas in my opinion doesn't have any fancy writing style. This is what makes the book so unique. The writing style that this book has is just a memoir in a sort because these adventures that he had in Las Vegas was actually real and he could write about it in the first person basis.

Contrast Post 2

As far as contrasts go the biggest one would be the moral of the story, as different stories tend to have. In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the moral of the story or the goal of the story was to find out what the American Dream was. Although it took a while for the story to finally get to the main point, it was still a thoughtful moral to the story and almost had a “Wrap the story up like a present and top it off with a bow” feeling. For The Rum Diary the moral or the goal of the story was to find the protagonist’s voice, and in turn showing the reader that everyone has to find their voice at some point and without it one cannot reach self fulfillment in their life. He did this by finally sticking it to the “man” and finally just saying, “I’m going to write about what I want to write. I’m going to write about what’s really happening in the world and tell it to them straight.” Another difference between these books would be that the “problems” were different. For example for The Rum Diary the problem was the bad guys. So essentially the book was based off the classic good guy bad guy storyline with the good guys realizing their voice. In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas the problem was cops… everywhere. Every second of the story was based on trying to avoid the authorities since they were either high out of their minds or just plain running away from their past crimes across the crazy town of Las Vegas.