By way of contrast, in postmodernism a lot of aspects of life are shown as constructs of society. Manzanar for example, relied on highways and heavy traffic from the inner city to help him “conduct” the congested streets of Los Angeles (53). The novel also included a map of the city, which also created a feeling of uncertainty since the maps were destined to change; unexpected, sudden changes that often times lead you to a dead-end-road. What is more important, is that the maps also had “layers” (57). For Manzanar, he viewed these changes as the “geology of land” (57). Nonetheless, these multi-layered maps became covered in their own complexity. This then “rendered” the streets in numerous ways that caused the maps to become useless. In addition
