Realization

I don’t know if anyone has seen the enthusiasm of my latest blogs, and how much I’ve liked this book. Something that seems completely ridiculous to me at the beginning now is making some sense. Only until chapter 4 I’ve come to realize the target of this book, I feel stupid that I’ve only realize this until now, but at least I did. Last class Mr. Tangen was talking about the importance of the Paranoids in the development of the book, we even looked at one of their songs “Glee” and this is when I realized that the target of Thomas Pynchon is the United States Government and Economy in other words Globalization, “Convair boosts the satellite into orbits round; Boeing built the Minuteman, We stay on the ground.” (66) These rock songs that the Paranoids sing are typical 1960s rock songs of rebellion and youthful angst. The Rebellion against the Globalization in 1960s was characterized by rock bands and their followers and in The Crying of Lot 49 these are represented by Te Paranoids.