The story is about a girl who I learned later is named Shannon McFarland. The novel opens on the wedding day of Ms. Evie Cottrell, where her house has caught fire and is burning to the ground. Everything in the beginning pages from pages 12-63 are rough and jumpy and I believe that Palahniuk intended all the serious of events to be messed up. It feels as if I miss something when the Narrator Shannon keeps jumping from one event to another, but it all makes sense once I reread the passage. There are also very early signs of perception to connect with my essential question. On page 39 Shannon's fiancé was horrified when he saw the pictures of her face after the car accident. He says " Oh God! Oh sweet, sweet Jesus! Christ!" This obviously does not make Shannon feel great about what she looks like because only outsiders can perceive and look at her physical appearance. The hospital had taken away all the mirrors so that she would not have the time to look at herself, thus creating no self- perception for her at this point in the book. The perception that was given to her by her fiancé is not a very inviting one because even though the accident has totally disfigured her face he should not be so blunt and make her feel bad he should be telling her things like "your beautiful no matter" etc. Also another great quote dealing with perception is on page 40 and Shannon jumps to a time when she was with Manus, her fiancé, sailing and she needed sunglasses because she forgot hers. She says, "What I dont know is that one of my sunglass lenses is darker than the other, almost opaque. I'm blind in one eye because of this lens, and I have no depth perception. This could mean one of two things. The first thing it could mean is the literal meaning that she really has no depth perception at this point. The other thing it could mean is that this depth perception or these sunglasses could be alluding to the perception that she does not see about herself or maybe even Manus.
thats all for now be back Friday
-- L. katz
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