Paranoia In The Medical Field

The book Zoo by James Patterson is thrilling. It contains many attributes within the book and its characters like, paranoia, a dystopian world and, the use of pastiche. Throughout the novel characters are trying to find a cure for the animal outbreak for animals have been dangerous towards humans. With these characteristics, it therefore fits under the era of post-modernism due to the use of literary techniques used in the novel. A reason why it is fit under the post-modern era is because of the use of paranoia and its place in the novel. The definition of paranoia is it is a mental disorder characterized by systematized delusions and the projections of personal conflicts, which may cause conflicts and other disturbances in the person's life. the technique of using paranoia and installing it into writers characters is classified under the post-modern era. In the novel, Dr. Oz says "For all the scientific evidence we were amassing, many people, both in the government and in the citizenry our elected officials are supposedly beholden to, were still refusing to accept that anything is out of the ordinary was happening." (Patterson 194) This quote from the novel exclaims the Oz is worried about his future and begins to get paranoid for what is to happen next. Another example it thought of being controlled. Constantly in the novel, it proclaims the Oz's voice isn't heard, that no one is listening. One can infer the he begins to think he has no control of he own future or life. "Why is this happening? Who knows really? Life and …show more content…
The use of pastiche, taking ideas from other sources of media. The way the described a dystopian world, and how their world is corrupt. As well as the use of paranoia displayed within characters and how it affected them throughout the rest of the novel. Therefore the novel Zoo by James Patterson is pinned under the era of