Running Wild Essay
Running Wild
James Graham Ballard
James Graham Ballard’s Running Wild takes us to the Pangbourne Village estate just outside Reading 30 miles from London. The once wealthy solitary Pangbourne Village estate has been reduced to nothing more than a mere ghost town. Thirty-two people have been brutally and systematically murdered. We follow the forensic maverick Doctor Richard Greville and his sidekick Sergeant Payne as they unravel the fate of the unfortunate Pangbourne victim’s. A mystery that has been puzzling the English population for several weeks. The true question is not who killed the victims, but how did two men manage to succeed where so many had failed?
The Pangbourne Village was a wealthy estate no doubt about it, the ten households were supplied with its own gymnasium, swimming facilities and a staff of servants. The estate had been cut off from the rest of the world by steel-mesh fences, surveillance cameras and a vigilant security staff. It had become a middle-upper-class ghetto. It took merely minutes to turn the estate into a ghostly ghetto, several investigators had trampled the Pangbourne perimeter and the media had spun countless theories. No one had been able to solve the case. Our protagonist Doctor Richard Greville, deputy psychiatric advisor has been put on the case as a last attempt to solve the puzzle. Dr. Greville starts his investigation by visiting the estate. While examining the scene of crime he encounters Sergeant Payne who has been wandering the ghostly perimeter as a security guard for nearly a month. Payne has peculiar theories of his own.
The story has been written from the perspective of Doctor Greville. We listen to his thoughts as he revises his diaries, which means that the protagonist and the narrator of this novel is the same person. At the point where the story begins, the narrator already knows who the killers are and he deliberately withholds information in order to create suspense. Writers create suspense to
James Graham Ballard
James Graham Ballard’s Running Wild takes us to the Pangbourne Village estate just outside Reading 30 miles from London. The once wealthy solitary Pangbourne Village estate has been reduced to nothing more than a mere ghost town. Thirty-two people have been brutally and systematically murdered. We follow the forensic maverick Doctor Richard Greville and his sidekick Sergeant Payne as they unravel the fate of the unfortunate Pangbourne victim’s. A mystery that has been puzzling the English population for several weeks. The true question is not who killed the victims, but how did two men manage to succeed where so many had failed?
The Pangbourne Village was a wealthy estate no doubt about it, the ten households were supplied with its own gymnasium, swimming facilities and a staff of servants. The estate had been cut off from the rest of the world by steel-mesh fences, surveillance cameras and a vigilant security staff. It had become a middle-upper-class ghetto. It took merely minutes to turn the estate into a ghostly ghetto, several investigators had trampled the Pangbourne perimeter and the media had spun countless theories. No one had been able to solve the case. Our protagonist Doctor Richard Greville, deputy psychiatric advisor has been put on the case as a last attempt to solve the puzzle. Dr. Greville starts his investigation by visiting the estate. While examining the scene of crime he encounters Sergeant Payne who has been wandering the ghostly perimeter as a security guard for nearly a month. Payne has peculiar theories of his own.
The story has been written from the perspective of Doctor Greville. We listen to his thoughts as he revises his diaries, which means that the protagonist and the narrator of this novel is the same person. At the point where the story begins, the narrator already knows who the killers are and he deliberately withholds information in order to create suspense. Writers create suspense to