Blog #7

The topic   for  blog  #7 was  select out of  the four  stories  from the gold  coast  section the one that you feel is the best example of noir and one that would be the most difficult to classify as noir.

So now let me  start   with the fact  that  all four stories sucked, they  are  very short  stories  so  they  don’t really have any context   they  don’t  get  you wrapped  up  and  make  you want  to keep  reading  it’s like   four very shorts  stories that  are meant   to  torture the mind of the reader  with  doubts, so  at the  end  of  the   every single  story  you are  intrigued  on  the  why,  the  how   of   the stories  and you end  up  with   this  confused look  on your  face   that  just    says really?  That’s all you got?. But anyhow.

 Let me   start   with the one I believe is the one that it’s hardest to classify as a noir.
“Kinship.” By Brian Ascalon Roley. (299).
In my personal  opinion  this story  was  the hardest one  to classify  as noir, it does not  seem  dark  at  all it  does  not present  that noir  ambiance,  it  just  feels like  a  story   being  told by someone who wants  to get  it  out of t heir  system.  It lacks  the  femme  fatale, and the protagonist could  pass  as a so call  detective  but  not  in the true sense  of  the word   because  all he investigates  is the house  where the person that  hurt veronica’s  husband lives. And  the only   sentence   that I  can  perceive  as  dark and  that  it gives  me  that sensation of  noir  its all  the way  at the  end  of  the  story.

I am a father  too, I said  it  loud enough  for Manny  to hear, and  then I  reached  down  and  stuck  him.(317)
 That is  the only  moment  when  you  can  truly  feel  the noir because  you  can  just picture yourself as the victim, and  feel  Tomas heavy  breathing   full of anger  tell you  that last  words  you will ever  hear.

But  that is  about  it   there is no  other  moment  when  you feel  the chills  of  noir,  the sensation that you are trapped and there will  no  way out.

Now  the  one  that  can  best  represent  what Noir is.

Even  though all  four  stories where  totally lame  the  one that  can  pass  as noir  because  to be honest  is not  the best  example  but it  will be   out  these  four stories I  would  say it  has  to  be  “The girl who kissed Barnaby Jone” By Scott Phillips.  I personally  thought    the story  sucked but  it  does  have  more  characteristics of  what noir  is classified  to be, it  includes  the protagonist  that’s between   a  fine line of  good and  evil,  you have the  Femme  fatale  that drags  him  to  his own damnation, also  he know he  is a  sucker  for her  he  acknowledges   the fact that  he  would   do  anything  for  that  female.

 “I have a great big boner with Cherie’s name on it, and if she asked me to shovel shit I’d ask her how fast she needed it shoveled. “Where, exactly?”(287)

The  female  known  as  Cherie’s  is  the  Femme  fatale, she is  the expert in getting  men  to do  what she wants, well kind of  because in this  story, the one  man  she calls  decides to  ditch  her because  he realizes  she is  bat shit  crazy. At  the end  he  still ends  death or  that’s  what  the  end implies. All throughout this  ten page story  she  can  feel  a little  bit of  Noir  it is all set  up in a  dark  environment  you  have  the lust factor  the lust  and  sex  is   in  most of  the lines,  you  have the protagonist  who   falls like  a dumbass  for the  girl  just  because  she  has  a “smoking  hot body”, you have a  murder  taken place  in  shady  place.  so  therefore I believe  that story  fits noir  the best.