A Space For Expression and Introspection
A Space To Be Determined.
A Space To Be Determined.
Red Clocks is a book filled with bold choices and decisions, from both a storytelling and even a cover perspective. So the choice of telling this story from five varying perspectives is an interesting one. Leni Zumas intertwines these characters both in narrative and structure and I think that this formality allows for a feeling of inter-connectivity between all of the characters. Even Eivor-- who is dead long before the main story begins-- feels very connected to what's happening in the narrative, particularly with Ro. Based off our previous class discussions, I believe that Zumas decides to tell this story through five different voices as a way to act against a patriarchal standard of turning women against each other. In this way Zumas has essentially brought five women together through struggle and strife. I wonder myself how the story would change if told from only the perspective of maybe Ro and Mattie. I think lessening the amount of perspectives would dampen the grand scale of Red Clocks itself. Having the perspective of a woman who acts as a vigilante of sorts, a young girl going through an accidental, a woman who wants the accidental, and a woman who questions her accidental (referring to Susan, her children most likely weren't accidental), these outlooks provide a large scope in context of female choice and affirmation. This novel doesn't represent a universal spectrum of patriarchal oppression on women but it does still do a good job--great even, at telling this specific narrative and this specific ordeal on women. Props to Zumas on that. Thoughts??
P.S. Call me slow or whatever you want but I never realized what I was looking at when I looked at the cover of Red Clocks until very recently. The cover always stood out to me and then one day I just had a “duh” moment. Bold choice indeed.
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Trey BrownA creative-writing major at Wright State with a particular interest in motion pictures. Archives
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