Let the Great World Spin
Xiaolei Fang (Ivy) Fang 1
Professor Larry Rubin
English1102-L1310077
19 Oct 2012
The Interconnectedness Of Characters Of ''Let The Great World Spin''
''Let The Great World Spin'' is a portrait of New York City. Spanning races and
classes, it's a tribute to the city's diversity, rich and history. "The city lived in a sort of
everyday present....New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a
good goddamn about what it had left behind." This is what McCann tells us through
his characters. And then later, "(The tightrope walker) had made himself a statue, but
a perfect New York one, a temporary one, up in the air, high above the city. A statue
that had no regard for the past." For that reason, Petit's walk was a "stroke of genius."
The cable of Philippe Petit links many different stories. The story have more than one
narrator, different voices intertwine, let the reader see a rare "exchange", see that ditch
rather than through the parallel line, screwed to together. McCann show that although
New York is a diversification of modern metropolis, there is true love in this city.
The amour between Corrigan and Adelita illustrate that love has infinite power
that can conquer everything, including religious beliefs and moral constraints.
Corrigan, who is a young Irish monk who has given his life over to doing what he
tells his mother is “God’s work” to rescue the world from poverty and injustice. He
has a self-styled liberation-theology model is that ''Christ never rejected the world. If
He had rejected it, He would have rejected mystery and in that, rejecting faith.'' After
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he leaves Ireland, he struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes
in the middle of the Bronx. Corrigan is a monk sworn to celibacy, but everything
changed after he
Professor Larry Rubin
English1102-L1310077
19 Oct 2012
The Interconnectedness Of Characters Of ''Let The Great World Spin''
''Let The Great World Spin'' is a portrait of New York City. Spanning races and
classes, it's a tribute to the city's diversity, rich and history. "The city lived in a sort of
everyday present....New York kept going forward precisely because it didn't give a
good goddamn about what it had left behind." This is what McCann tells us through
his characters. And then later, "(The tightrope walker) had made himself a statue, but
a perfect New York one, a temporary one, up in the air, high above the city. A statue
that had no regard for the past." For that reason, Petit's walk was a "stroke of genius."
The cable of Philippe Petit links many different stories. The story have more than one
narrator, different voices intertwine, let the reader see a rare "exchange", see that ditch
rather than through the parallel line, screwed to together. McCann show that although
New York is a diversification of modern metropolis, there is true love in this city.
The amour between Corrigan and Adelita illustrate that love has infinite power
that can conquer everything, including religious beliefs and moral constraints.
Corrigan, who is a young Irish monk who has given his life over to doing what he
tells his mother is “God’s work” to rescue the world from poverty and injustice. He
has a self-styled liberation-theology model is that ''Christ never rejected the world. If
He had rejected it, He would have rejected mystery and in that, rejecting faith.'' After
Fang 2
he leaves Ireland, he struggles with his own demons as he lives among the prostitutes
in the middle of the Bronx. Corrigan is a monk sworn to celibacy, but everything
changed after he