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Reading Emergency By Denis Johnson
Reading Emergency by Denis Johnson was a confusing story. F***head is now working in a hospital with an orderly named Georgie. F***head and Georgie go through a whole adventure in this story because many of the events that occur in this story are unexpected. After reading this story more than twice there is an underlying theme.Throughout this story F***head and Georgie have no conflicts put in place to overcome because there are unusal life occurring events clashing together which make the theme of this story ironic. The events that make this theme ironic is when a man named Terrence Weber ends up walking to the hospital that F***head and Georgie work at because he got stabbed in the eye with a knife by his because Terrence was seeing something
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