"It Had to be Murder" is a great suspense story, its almost as if the reader goes on the investigation with the main character Jeff. The author made Jeff use logical thinking in order to try to put the pieces of the murder puzzle together. Though most of it was assumptions, he grows pretty convincing throughout the story as he goes on with his "1, 2.3", scenarios. It was almost as if you were right there with him, as his suspension grew, so did yours. I felt that there was a stream of consciousness because most of what he says he is thinking about in his own head. He is alone most of the time, only visited every once in awhile by Sam and Boyne. This is a perfect movie to adapt to film because these are the classic movies that made cinema so wonderful. Who doesn't love a good crime/mystery movie?
Love the illustration, Kortni. Stories like this were often published in little magazines like the one you picture. What does the illustration suggest to us?
ReplyDeleteI understand why you would consider this stream of consciousness, but it's actually too refined for that. Stream of consciousness tends to tumble from one point to another; connections are more associative (like montage) than contiguous, (like continuity editing.) This has a much clearer narrative structure than true stream of consciousness