Comparison

Brian Huynh

I agree with you about how the obvious similarity between these two books is the drugs that are being implemented on Thompson. In Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, like you said, almost every page was him either taking drugs, gathering more drugs, or his crazy altered reality and hallucinations due to the drugs. Also in The Rum Diary, instead of taking the hardcore drugs that are stereo typically labeled as the worse drugs, he takes heavy doses of rum. Another similarity that I think that these two books find in common is the moral and the theme of both. It may not seem like there are any moral or theme due to the wildness and craziness of the adventures that Thompson has but if you comprehend and analyze the story, you will discover that both of these books have similar morals and theme. The theme is discover what you really are behind all the smoke and figure out what you really believe in. In Fear and Loathing, the theme was to discover the American dream and in Rum Diary, the moral was to figure out your voice and doing what you think is right.