The Goon

Taking a structuralist approach to A Visit From the Goon Squad, I immediately take into consideration the way the text is presented. The combination of many short stories based on many different characters. It makes taking a structuralist approach a little more tricky as finding meaning within the text is spread as they don’t solely focus on a single character. Unlike something with a more simple structure, you would find a love story or horror. I instead try to look at the combination of stories

In the novel A Visit from the Goon Squad, Jennifer Egan explores the idea that the passage of time is inevitable, and that there is no preventing it. Each character in the novel finds themselves struggling with the passage of time. Each character longs for youth and holds on to that youth through memories. For some of the characters time has broken them, but for others, it has allowed them a new outlook on life. Throughout the novel, each character ages, changes, and eventually is forced to accept

Every work of literature requires a theme for it to be worth reading. Jennifer Egan’s “A Visit from the Goon Squad” mainly presents the theme of ruin and redemption throughout the novel. This theme is present alongside with other minor themes like the shift of American culture, and how the characters self-centered ways are crush by time. All of the major characters will find themselves at some sort of low point in their lives throughout the novel. Jocelyn becomes addicted to drugs and spends a great

The Korean Legend of Dan Gun The Korean legend of Dan Gun begins with the “Lord of Heaven” who had a son, Hwan-ung, who yearned to live on Earth. The legend states that the heaven and earth were one, and all animals could communicate with humans and gods. Hwan-ung wanted earthly rule, so his father sent him to Earth to gain his desire. When he went to Earth he met a tiger and a bear who "prayed" to become human. Hwan-ung proposed a test, which if completed would make the contestant a human. The

They believe that time signifies something, like experience or ability. In A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, time is looked at as a hindrance instead of a way to classify people. Switching narration every chapter, the novel follows Bennie and his secretary, Sasha, along with others in the music industry, through their journeys of change in life. Throughout the chapters, time is regarded as a goon, meaning that the institution of time is both silly and foolish, and is the equivalent of a

Do you ever feel like everyone has a “thing”? That one thing, something they’re good at? But you just can’t seem to find your thing? Then you share the same feeling with Doug Glatt, played by Seann William Scott has in the movie Goon. All Dougs family and friends have their thing, his parents and brother are doctors, his best friend has a hockey themed webcast he owns, but Doug has nothing but his job as a bouncer at the local bar. All that changes when a hockey coach witnesses Doug in a fight, bashing

perspectives showcased underscore the various, unpredictable ways in which individual moments can affect lives. Jennifer Egan’s, A Visit from the Goon Squad provides similar commentary on a larger scale. That is, the events of Crash take place over the course of thirty-six hours, whereas Goon Squad’s narrative spans decades. In both Crash and A Visit from the Goon Squad, the fact that the story is presented through shifting perspectives illuminates and clarifies the seemingly happenstance interconnectedness

the Goon Jennifer Egan’s A Visit From the Goon Squad is a best selling novel that recounts the self destructive habits of a group of distinct individuals; all of which are intertwined within each others lives one way or another. Themes within A Visit From the Goon Squad set the stage for how the reader sees the effect of disconnect of communication, repetition throughout generations and ultimately redemption with respect to aging. Egan’s most prominent suggestion made by A Visit From the Goon Squad

In A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan, many of the characters in the book deal with events in their lives that impact the way they turn out in the future. Many of these characters have things that happen in their lives when they were children or adolescents that cause a change. The novel was written to show these changes by having the time periods of the chapters not in chronological order. The characters are shown in different parts in their life and shows how they came to be a certain

structures intertwine within the novel, A Visit From the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan. Without its structure the novel would be unremarkable. The ever-switching points of view and types of prose carry the different perspectives of the main characters, and the division of the book into two sections symbolizes the flip sides of their lives. Ultimately, the structure unravels as its own character, which illustrates the main theme of the novel, that time is a goon tied to music. The switching points of view