Comparative Analysis of The Executioner's Song - the book and the movie
The Book
The Executioner's Song opens without any drum rolls with simple 'declarative sentences.' Readers of Mailer claim that he seemed incapable of writing this way, until The Executioner's Song. The Executioner's Song was published in 1979.
'Gary is the career criminal and soon-to-be-double-murderer Gary Gilmore - a bad apple.' Brenda is Gary's cousin, who takes-in Gary to her home to provide him another chance ti imprive his life; after a lifetime in reform school and then eighteen years in jail. For 1,056 pages, the belief that human love and care can either avoid or trigger disaster, is overtly presented. The end of the novel is Gilmore's 'insistence on facing execution …show more content…
While it is not a piece of non-fiction, it is not wholly fiction too. The way the book has been written makes the readers examine its position between reality and perception. The points made by Mailer about Gilmore can and cannot be considered as truth. The Pulitzer Prize Committee considers Mailer's work as a "...thoroughly imagined work of fiction." The Executioner's Song is a novelised story of the life and death of Gilmore - the first man to have got legally executed in the United States of America. The execution takes place in Utah, the hub of Mormon religion; and thus the background of the Mormon culture paly a crucial role in the novel. While Mailer portrays Gilmore as a heroic figure by romantisising life and death, Gilmore is a career criminal who chose his lifepath pre-teen. Was Mailer partial towards Gilmore? Did Mailer create a stage as to how Gilmore must be perceived in the media? Questions like such make the readers wonder the presentation of Gilmore's character; and makes us rethink about reality and perceptions. One analogy is that Mailer colours the book with his perceptions, just like all the media do, insidiously or
The Book
The Executioner's Song opens without any drum rolls with simple 'declarative sentences.' Readers of Mailer claim that he seemed incapable of writing this way, until The Executioner's Song. The Executioner's Song was published in 1979.
'Gary is the career criminal and soon-to-be-double-murderer Gary Gilmore - a bad apple.' Brenda is Gary's cousin, who takes-in Gary to her home to provide him another chance ti imprive his life; after a lifetime in reform school and then eighteen years in jail. For 1,056 pages, the belief that human love and care can either avoid or trigger disaster, is overtly presented. The end of the novel is Gilmore's 'insistence on facing execution …show more content…
While it is not a piece of non-fiction, it is not wholly fiction too. The way the book has been written makes the readers examine its position between reality and perception. The points made by Mailer about Gilmore can and cannot be considered as truth. The Pulitzer Prize Committee considers Mailer's work as a "...thoroughly imagined work of fiction." The Executioner's Song is a novelised story of the life and death of Gilmore - the first man to have got legally executed in the United States of America. The execution takes place in Utah, the hub of Mormon religion; and thus the background of the Mormon culture paly a crucial role in the novel. While Mailer portrays Gilmore as a heroic figure by romantisising life and death, Gilmore is a career criminal who chose his lifepath pre-teen. Was Mailer partial towards Gilmore? Did Mailer create a stage as to how Gilmore must be perceived in the media? Questions like such make the readers wonder the presentation of Gilmore's character; and makes us rethink about reality and perceptions. One analogy is that Mailer colours the book with his perceptions, just like all the media do, insidiously or