Miller, Sarah. Inside the mind of Gideon Rayburn.MILLER, Sarah. Inside the mind of Gideon Rayburn. St. Martin's St. Martin's or St. Martins may refer to:
Gideon, a new boy at a posh prep school, is smart but not wealthy. Drinking, drugs, sex, cliques and hierarchies are all givens in prep school life. Getting a classroom education is a byproduct by·prod·uct or by-prod·uct n. 1. Something produced in the making of something else. 2. A secondary result; a side effect. Noun 1. . Gideon is still a virgin, or "half a virgin." Thus, his most significant dilemma is when and how he can get laid. By chance, he rooms with the two most handsome girl magnets on campus. They devise a bet--which girl in his league, or slightly beyond, can he get to have sex with him by October 31? Gideon naturally first goes for the hottest girl on campus, though he has committed himself via the bet to having sex with a girl who's merely pretty, smart and funny. The twist here is that the narrative voice is a girl inside Gideon's head who reads his thoughts and comments upon them. Will he display hidden depths of character? The narrator NARRATOR. A pleader who draws narrs serviens narrator, a sergeant at law. Fleta, 1. 2, c. 37. Obsolete. is one of the characters, but keeps her identity hidden until the end. The girl's voice is wise and irreverent. The book's great virtue is that it purports to tell the male point of view, which is, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. this narrator, focused on sex. (What Miller has imagined is demeaning de·mean 1 tr.v. de·meaned, de·mean·ing, de·means To conduct or behave (oneself) in a particular manner: demeaned themselves well in class. to girls, whose virtues are rated on the basis of body parts.) Gideon displays at times almost female characteristics of sensitivity and caring about others not shown by any of the other male characters, eventually making him a worthy object of his unknown auditor's affections. Myrna Marler, Assoc. Prof. of English, BYU BYU Brigham Young University BYU Bayou BYU Bob's Your Uncle BYU Bayreuth, Germany - Bindlacher Berg (Airport Code) BYU Beyond Your Understanding , Provo, UT S--Recommended for senior high school students. |
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