While Gretchen neatly describes what Beauvoir means by "the miracle of literature", one, in contrast, missed the point of Pomeroy's use. Otherwise.we've missed the point."Īnd, Ms Pomeroy, "But aren't we forgetting the miracle of storytelling?" We care that their home has been destroyed.and that their lives are in danger.
Then Gretchen (bless her soul) responds with a Beauvoir-like answer, "They are a product of the author's imagination. "Because they are us," Ms Pomeroy replies.
The book and movie, "Watership Down," by Richard Adams, that prompts Donnie's response tells the story about the survival of a warren of rabbits. Yet, in Ms Pomeroy's morning English class, Donnie Darko questions such involvement. Lost, or better yet 'abandoned' to the fictional worlds of the novels or movies that attract and hold a reader/viewer's attention. "Engage." Indeed, this is the telling word that points to a constellation of deeper forms of aesthetic response such as 'immersed', 'absorbed' or just plain 'lost'. as a famous Starship Captain often said, "Let the prattle begin." In her book, "The Art of Being, Poetics of the Novel and Existential Philosophy", Ong cites this essay at length. In the dubious prattle that follows, one seeks to examine the phrase, "the miracle of storytelling," spoken in "Donnie Darko" through the lens of Beauvoir's parallel phrase, "the miracle of literature" written in her essay, "What Can Literature Do?". Review: "Donnie Darko Book" seen through the lens of Ong's "The Art of Being"įind here the transcendent theme (and perhaps two others) for the Good Reads team's friendly notice and that transcendent theme is the concept of 'miracle,' (as well as 'deus ex machina' and realism).
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