I really enjoyed this story, it is probably due to the fact that it is more modern than the stories and poems that we have read previously, and it is a situation that pretty much everyone in our CM1120 class could find themselves in one day as we all go our seperate ways to different schools.
The story is a huge mess in terms of the plot as there are random and very frequent time skips that completely confused me, but I understood them the second time around. We were tod in clas that this was to represent the effects the drugs that the protagonist, Jason, had taken, but I always wonder if the author truly wanted this to represent the drugs or he just likes to write jumpy stories, all though the second choice is probably a little less likely as authors seem to have all of these ideas planned out before they write them, unlike me with this blog.
A basic summary of this story would be kids in a club, flashback to subway ride, back in club, flashback to apartment, and then they are in the club again for a while after a significant amount of time has passed and then they leave. The characters in this story have taken ecstacy and the story revolves around Jason's feelings about his girlfriend, Sherry and his friend Doke's girlfriend Emily. What is amazing is that even though he is under the effect of drugs, he realizes that it is the drugs that are making him feel the way that he is feeling and he is able to retain some form of clarity and keep his senses, unlike Doke, who takes drugs that are laced with something else and pretty much passes out.
This story really interested me in the way that we were able to view the effects of this drug through the eyes of another, and we see his ability to still be able to rationalize his thoughts and his feelings. I think this may be one of my favorite stories because of the way that the plot and the elements of the story intertwine to help further support the possible themes of the story and overall the story intrigued me. I also know now that I will never do drugs, because it is cler that most people may not be able to stay themselves like Jason did.
You aren't alone in being confused!! Going over it did help though like you said. I like how you pondered why the author chose to write it the way he did, because frankly it looks like a giant mess. But it's probably for the effect, which you stated above. Altogether I liked this post because you have many of the same ideas that I have written about in my post as well.
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