Reading Response 10/27

Ghost by Paul Auster was a great reading. It's captivating, creative, complex, yet a easy read. The names of the characters are color. There is Blue, Black, Brown, and so on. It's a mystery reading which keeps you guessing, its not predictable. The story centers around Blue who is send on a mission to sky on Black. He follows the character throughout the story to the surprise that nothing ever happens for a while. Instead of repeating the nothingness throughout the story, blue fills that void of lacking any concrete action from taking place by creating scenarios in his head. Most of the time spend spying on Black, Blue ponders about different scenarios, different situations, creating  situations in his mind and running with it such as White working with Black to actually spy on Blue. White being a rival of Black, Black and White fighting over inheritance and so on. The story takes a big twist near the end when Blue finally discovers that the writing Blue has seen Black do throughout the story were the weekly reports that Blue has been writing and sending to White. Clearly, Black has known that Blue was spying on him, more so he revealed to Blue who was in disguise that he (Black) was a private investigator who is spying on a person who doesn't seem to be doing anything just sitting around and writing. I take that to be that Black is a mirror of Blue, doing the same exact things, to the point where each other know when the other is out and about, and when they are doing nothing. 

The style of writing by Paul Auster in Ghost is unique I would say in that the characters are given very easy names to keep up with. Just one name, no last name and represented with a color. It's helpful especially because the story keeps bring up different characters such as Brown, the detective head Blue works for and taught him a lot, Mrs Future (and Ex Mrs Future) Blue, White who send Blue to spy on Black, and so on, so it made it very easy to keep up who was who and how were they related to Blue. Also I noticed that there were no quotation marks on the character lines throughout the story though that didn't make it any harder to keep up with the dialogue when Blue confronted Black and exchanged words. I am not sure the reason for not including quotation marks but overall the book was a good and thrilling read.