The Airborne Toxic Event

This force is popular culture. For better or worse, pop culture has infiltrated the lives of our fictional family just as it has the lives of real human beings. DeLillo's purpose in the book is best illuminated by Heinrich's comment after the airborne toxic event: "The real issue is the kind of radiation that surrounds

Richards notes that death adds texture to life. White Noise projects societal views that are subliminal, that is part of an unrecognized background in our existence, so that we might hear and see them more clearly. Delillo does this through the “Toxic Airborne Event” which is caused by a

a major element in this book. The author highlights this when Jack is told by the computer that the airborne toxin has infected his bloodstream. Also, the daughters of Jack and Babette feel the symptoms of the airborne toxin consecutively after the radio informs them of the effects the aura of authority has towards technology.

Perception of the World and False Images from White Noise Don DeLillo's award-winning novel White Noise takes the idea of the supremacy of false images to the extreme. Through various scenarios, such as the airborne toxic event and the Dylar dilemma, DeLillo critiques contemporary society's over-dependence on false images. The characters in the novel that exemplify this over-dependence appear humorous on one hand, yet tragic on the other. The humor comes from the novel's characters

Don DeLillo’s novel, White Noise revolves around the life of Jack, a Hitler Studies scholar at College-on-the-Hill. The characters within the novel all want to involve themselves with the events in an industrial American society. Jack and his fourth spouse, Babette are characterized by their love, fear of loss of life, and four seemingly civilized children. The family seeks to live in a society where the consumerism culture is highly influenced by media and companies. The characters’ consumerism

Paris. The narrator lived in denial. He opted to assume his wife’s departure, and live as if nothing had change. He lived in the hope that his wife would return (McInerney 343). Nonetheless, the narrator opted to search for his wife at her fashion events. He was overly fixated on his wife’s memory, where he obsessed on her possessions, her modelling pictures, and a dummy based on her. Overtime, his incongruous lifestyle influenced his career. Progressively, the narrator became overly disillusioned

Don DeLillo is an American writer born in 1936. DeLillo is a postmodernist and has written eleven books receiving various awards for his work. The title of DeLillo’s eighth novel White Noise brings forth many assumptions towards the overall meaning of the book. If one was to generally interpret the meaning, “white noise” is produced when sound waves are joined together creating a constant buzz. This buzz can produce a relaxing or an overwhelming feeling, depending, if it refers to a repetitive noise

Death: A Hyperobject in the Background, Yet Feared by Many Hyperobjects are events so immense that they can only be seen in bits and pieces. As Timothy Morton argues, these hyperobjects can include global warming, capitalism and even, I would argue, death. The novel White Noise by Don Delillo is a work of literature that suggests that death might in fact be a hyperobject. Throughout the novel, Delillo uses the emotions of the characters Jack, Heinrich, and Orest to support the suggestion that death

Death and Dying in DeLillo's White Noise      Among other things, Don DeLillo seems completely preoccupied with death and the arduous task of living with the knowledge of death in his novel White Noise. Acceptance of our finite, fragile existence over time is certainly not a phenomenon unique to a single civilization or historical era. Rather than discuss the inescapable mortality that connects all humankind with broad, generalized strokes, DeLillo is concerned with the particular (peculiar

Satirical novels such as Delillo’s piece act as a medium to reflect on the defects of America at that time and how similar those events are to current issues. I aim to contribute to the growing conversation of the faults of America’s quick paced lifestyle and how the media caters to that. While I understand that these illnesses have the ability to actually hinder someone’s day-to-day