I was really excited this semester to be in a class with a focus on learning about a text in unconventional ways. A course where we get to tweet in class, and the teacher is totally fine with it? Sign me up! I realized pretty quickly that the projects we were assigned were, in fact, […]
Final Reflection Assignment For each of the books we’ve read this semester, I was painfully aware of how I had previously had superficial understanding of language theory, and this course made me want to know more about how language evolves. Before this course I understood in theory what these great thinkers like Derrida, Wittgenstein, and […]
Does Nona believe everything that happens in Demon Theory is real or is it a matter of her living this imaginary world in her head? When looking at the novel this way I think back to the movie and the book Fight Club. There are differences between the two, but there are also many similarities. […]
“Demon Theory” plays on the idea that is common to most humans in which we believe ourselves to be the superior beings on the planet, in terms of their intelligence and their spot at the top of the food chain; however, to introduce humans to a new species, one who can attack from the skies […]
In “Demon Theory”, the characters Hale, Con, and Nona each represent one of Sigmund Freud’s elements—the id, the ego, and the superego—that are fundamental to his structural model of the human psyche. The ID focuses on basic, human instincts; is present from birth; it is the source of wants, needs, and desires; when following it, […]
It seems there just isn’t enough time to talk about the inticracies and multitude of themes within Demon Theory. One thing I found interesting that was touched on in class, is the relationship of the book to the movie starring Leonardo Di Caprio, Inception. Inception, which was made after Di Caprio’s hit, Shutter Island share many similarities […]
What We Know Stephen Graham Jones’ novel demonstrates experimentation in a variety of ways but most obviously in its division of three parts rather than chapters. Unintelligent, stereotypical dialogue is starkly contrasted by the eruditeness of footnotes. As opposed to developing three-dimensional characters and a profound sense of horror, Jones mimics the shallowness of […]
I find myself reading Demon Theory at the most inconvenient of times. For example, I finished up the first section right before I went to bed. I figured that haunted houses scare me to death, and scary movies are cause for some sleeplessness… but I had no doubt a book would not affect me in that […]
Demon Theory has a variety of different major literary themes. Some of those themes include fear of the unknown, people are prey, antihero, and survival instinct. As this novel first started out, it reminded me a lot of House Of Leaves as in the story plot is all over the place. I then realized that Demon […]