blog 7

In the story The Kidnapper Bell written by Jim Pascoe, he makes many remarks stating that the story is taking place in Los Angeles. Even within the first line he says "Change flows swiftly through L.A."(209). So its pretty obvious where the story is taking place but lets look deeper into the story and relate it to the L.A. scene. First the main character is at a bar in L.A. waiting on his date to show up, while there he starts classifying everyone that is in the bar. This is something typical for residents of L.A. to do, that why so to speck everyone that lives there has fake boobs, fake hair, or just a fake body. So him doing this is analyzing each person and putting them into groups. The next scene he has drugs in his pocket and slipped a date rape drug in her drink. Drugs is something big in the city of Los Angeles, its all about who has the better stuff at a cheaper price. Maybe this point isn't't valid due to the fact there are drugs everywhere so lets move on. When the female character leads him to the dead body, on page 211 he mentions how she drives past Chinatown, Chinatown is a famous site to see when in L.A so there is another land mark. Also in that scene it mentions how dark the streets are and this will lead to the suspense later to happen. Another huge popular old L.A scene is the Los Angeles river, most of this story takes place here and this is also where to two body lay. After the situation at the L.A river, he is sent on a quest to to try and find the dead girls sister. In terms he was led back to the river and while there he mentions all the Graffiti art that's drawn all over the cement walls. This is a big shout out to L.A, Graffiti is art and art is considered an act of expression, and people in L.A are very expressive and different in their own ways. So overall i think Jim Pascoe did a good job describing settle details of Los Angeles and letting the readers mind work harder to relate the story.

Furthermore, in the story City of Commerce written by Neal Pollack, it was harder for me to relate to L.A besides the obvious statement the main male character makes about L.A. For me i see this story taking place more in Las Vegas due the all the gambling going on. But that is also from a younger generations point of view. Ive seen a lot of old films like "Gangster squad" that there was a lot of gambling going on in the olden days. But back to the story, he mentions details about the freeways he takes while getting to the casino and when he pulls up to the casino he says what cars are there which is a status thing yet again. " i pulled the car into a spot in the back row, between a gleaming Cadillac SUV and an Oldsmobile that looked like it hadn't been washed since 1973" (232). Once again showing the judgement of Los Angeles. Another thing that stood out to me was the fact that the Russian man called him Dodger, because he was wearing a Dodger hat. This is relating that hes from L.A. because he's wearing the hat and the Dodgers are from L.A. as well.