Monday, February 4, 2008
Ragtime
We started a new novel this last week called Ragtime. It is a story from the turn of the century that follows the lives and interactions between several people. There is a well off afluent family who's father goes off on an exploration to the north pole. The brother in law of the father is a single man that is obsessed with a celebrity Evilyn. Evelyn's husband kills her lover and is sent to jail. She absolutly hates her husband but she pleeds his inocense for lump sum of money. She eventually gets involved with the anarchest movement and she meets the brother in law. At this point the book has gotten ptretty inapropriate. If this was written earlier and not in such a free time as the mid 70s I do not think the novel would have been such a hit. The book depcts some really perverted scenes that at the turn of the century in a very conservative time would have been outragous.
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I did not think about that, but it was written in the hippie-living 70s. That is probably why it was such a big hit. The story is still relevant today due to the popularity that it had in the 1970s. Some classics will never "die" in terms of readers. The book is quite inappropriate as I stated in my own blog entry. Evelyn was an interesting character, in fact, all the characters were quite interesting. They all had quite the personality.
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