I have finished Venin God Little! Yay!

When i posted my last blog i was only a small qouter through the book and I had only just realised that Vernon, the protagonist, is wrongly accused of a mass-murder in which 16 of his school peers are gunned down. I have now finished the book and i would probably say its one of the most meanigful books I've ever read. It says a lot about the world and the human race. At the end of the book, Vernon is on death row and the public are voting for who they want to see execuated next. This shows the sick twisted nature of humans, making justice in the form of a gameshow and watching someone die for entertainment purposes, even if they are a killer. During his time in death row Vernon tattoos across his chest "See me and Suffer", so that the people watching can see it when hes on the bed where the poison is injected. This works incredibly well and I think it's pure genious from Piere, the woords are so shocking and have a strange impact on you as a reader which cannot be explained.
The other character's in the novel are also quite eye-opening. His mum seems to be more bothered by here new fridge not coming. Her friend Pam only thinks about food and whether Vernon is getting fed properly.

Some things i could focus on, in the coursework:
Youth
Mankind
Justice

Gothic male protagonists

The protagonist in a gothic novel is usually driven by his own selfish needs to transgress against social rules. The Monk (1796) rapes and murders, Frankenstein seeks to defy God by creating new a species. Transgression in the early novels is the instrument designed to thrill the reader because nothing excites like breaking rules. In later novels such transgression becomes a direct threat to social cohesion.

My progress so far

For my A2 English Lit coursework I am most likely going to compare "The Cathcher in the ryhe" with "Vernon God Little".  I knew I wanted to study the Catcher in The Rye because it's one of my favourite books and the only book i have read twice, this should mean i know the book quite well. I am also going to read "The bell jar" by Sylvia Plath and I will decide which one is easier to compare to tcir out of the two books.
I am currently about a third of the way through vgl and i am starting to really enjoy it. At first when we had to read in class i was a bit confused by the amount of names and family members, but at home reading where there is less noise it is easy to understand. Similarly to "The catcher in the Ryhe" we see things from the protagonists point of veiw, who is an adolescent and may not be completely sain. Although i am a fair bit through the book not much has really happend. We understand that he has been involved in an incident where people have died/killed and one of his friends Jesus is said to be to blame but he has been killed. Vernon insists that he is innocent, although he does not tell us anything of the events and won't tell the police because it will apparently damage his family or something along those lines.
We start to see a theme of family relations, a theme also prominent in Catcher in the Ryhe and we discvoer  his estranged relationship with his mum who he quite strangely and psychotically describes her as digging a knife in his back everytime she opens her mouth. She does this by talking about his "condition", which is apparently that he sometimes failes to get to a toilet amogst other embarrassing things. Despite all this it is clear that she does care for him, and he does for her.