In this section of the book I wanted to discuss and stress
the event of Paul Kemp, aka Hunter S. Thompson in protagonist form, finding his
“voice” as a writer. This moment I think is what the whole story was about,
even though it wasn’t all too clear from beginning to end. What I think he
meant by “finding his voice” was finding his style of writing. This voice was
to write about the truth and fight for what he thinks is right, not for greed
and writing with the intent of creating smoke and mirrors in front of the
reader, or creating a façade to allure and channel the reader into different
and biased thoughts. No. Although the drinking problem was a bad cover for a
book, the story inside said that Kemp was an honest man and noticed what was
right and wrong in the world and had an urge to tell everyone. This was of
course kept inside of him because the newspaper chief told him to write about
the good things of Puerto Rico, not the bad things in which Kemp wanted to
write about so much. I still question why the newspaper chief didn’t let Kemp
spill his guts with ink in the newspaper. He had plenty of articles he could
have printed that would have caught the attention of the Puerto Ricans and
allow them to take action in their community against the corporations. What do
you think about this situation? What do you think about Kemp finding his voice
and why is this important?
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