Crichton is trying to use a kinetic description where there is the movement of a character and represents the experience of the character within space and creates as Crang (1998) explains that you feel like you are walking on the sidewalk and not watching some else do so. There is the description of senses and encountering of random information, gives an impression of what real people encounter as they walk through an urban landscape (Kneale, 2003). Brousseau (1994) explains that this constant movement in the text is due to the list of one thing after another or sensory impressions.
Crichton also gives the description of George Morton’s property in Holmby Hills which gives you the impression that the property is based within a gated community of the suburbs of Los Angeles. This representation conforms to what Dear and Flusty (2002) state as privatopia which has provoked a culture of non-participation, and the creation of a dystopia as well as the creation of a fortified city where there is the Californians obsession with security. Pain et.al (2001) states that these gated communities are formed through the fear of crime and to exclude undesirables. This can lead to a segregated society and create what Dear & Flusty (2002) explain as a dystopia. Crichton (2004) also represents the city as a congested city, a de-centralised city where the car is dominant. This represents what Dear & Flusty (2002) argue about Los Angeles of being made up of edge cities (peripheral cities) where they intersect urban beltways and hub and spoke lateral roads. Los Angeles can be argued as being a de-centralised city making the car the dominant mode of transport.
“She stepped off the curb, and walked along the street; hanging at the edge of the crowd.....Sarah got the alley entrance, and paused. There were garbage bags stacked at intervals. She could smell the rotten odour from where she was. A big delivery truck blocked the far end of the alley” (pp 323 – 324)
“The iron gates swung open, and the car drove up the shaded driveway to the house that slowly came into view. This was Holmby Hills, the wealthiest area of Beverley Hills. The billionaires lived here, in residence hidden from the street by high gates and dense foliage. In this part of town, security cameras are all painted green, and tucked back unobtrusively. The house came into view. It was a Mediterranean-style villa, cream coloured, and large enough for a family of ten... birds chirped in the ficus trees, the air smelled of the gardenia and jasmine that bordered the drive way. (p 68)
“Evans merged his hybrid car onto to the San Diego freeway, twelve lanes of roaring traffic on an expanse of concrete as wide as half a football field. Sixty five percent of the surface area of Los Angeles was devoted to cars....Everything was so far apart, you couldn’t walk anywhere, the pollution was incredible.” (p 312)
Crichton also gives the description of George Morton’s property in Holmby Hills which gives you the impression that the property is based within a gated community of the suburbs of Los Angeles. This representation conforms to what Dear and Flusty (2002) state as privatopia which has provoked a culture of non-participation, and the creation of a dystopia as well as the creation of a fortified city where there is the Californians obsession with security. Pain et.al (2001) states that these gated communities are formed through the fear of crime and to exclude undesirables. This can lead to a segregated society and create what Dear & Flusty (2002) explain as a dystopia. Crichton (2004) also represents the city as a congested city, a de-centralised city where the car is dominant. This represents what Dear & Flusty (2002) argue about Los Angeles of being made up of edge cities (peripheral cities) where they intersect urban beltways and hub and spoke lateral roads. Los Angeles can be argued as being a de-centralised city making the car the dominant mode of transport.
“She stepped off the curb, and walked along the street; hanging at the edge of the crowd.....Sarah got the alley entrance, and paused. There were garbage bags stacked at intervals. She could smell the rotten odour from where she was. A big delivery truck blocked the far end of the alley” (pp 323 – 324)
“The iron gates swung open, and the car drove up the shaded driveway to the house that slowly came into view. This was Holmby Hills, the wealthiest area of Beverley Hills. The billionaires lived here, in residence hidden from the street by high gates and dense foliage. In this part of town, security cameras are all painted green, and tucked back unobtrusively. The house came into view. It was a Mediterranean-style villa, cream coloured, and large enough for a family of ten... birds chirped in the ficus trees, the air smelled of the gardenia and jasmine that bordered the drive way. (p 68)
“Evans merged his hybrid car onto to the San Diego freeway, twelve lanes of roaring traffic on an expanse of concrete as wide as half a football field. Sixty five percent of the surface area of Los Angeles was devoted to cars....Everything was so far apart, you couldn’t walk anywhere, the pollution was incredible.” (p 312)
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