Fear And Loathing In America Summary

Hunter S. Thompson the author of "Fear & Loathing in America" the story I read this week. I like the story is about the 911 tragedy happens in the United States the month of September day 9, the year 2001. When reading the story Thompson wrote you can gather any perception of style. The style is very different from others authors that write articles or story. Is not simple nor difficult to understand but this story kept you reading to the end. Is all about the author, the search that I made of the story I gathered some information about the author. Thompson when he started to write. He begins like an ordinary writer. Then he met the drugs to become to change his personality and the style of his writings. Thompson, "who has called his brand of reportage 'Gonzo Journalism', was perhaps the most visible and most vituperative of the New Journalism correspondents", edited by Mathews and Watson (2005). …show more content…
I did not resolve any "Fear & Loathing in America" title. The thing is that I found in this research I had it is "the year 2000 also saw the publication of a collection of Thompson's letters titled Fear and Loathing in America: Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist, 1968-1979" (Mathews and Watson, 2005). This is os confusing because the date of this story does not match to the date of September 11, 2001 tragedy. Otherwise, the writing of the story match to the personality of the author. Like I read of Mike Benediktsson, in Library Journal, appreciate "'the narrative tight, urgent prose' that 'exposes the twisted roots of Thompson's gonzo journalism'" you can read in the article edited by Mathews and Watson (2005). I would like to say or clear about the synthesis of it. The synthesis is the author style of writing that is why Thompson is a Gonzo journalism. An example is "Boom! Boom! Just like that" (Thompson,