Saturday By Ian Mcewan Sparknotes

Recent events in Las Vegas have shed a new light on the book Saturday by Ian McEwan. The novel and the events of Las Vegas go hand in hand because Las Vegas was a traumatic experience. .The novel discusses traumatic events and all the details that are affected by it. In the paper “welcome to contemporary trauma culture” by Barbara Aritzi, the focus is on the process of a traumatic event and how people both recover and how they cope with the situations. There are many texts involved in this excerpt that have different takes on the topic on trauma. They all mainly point to the same idea that it is a complicated topic that involves immense amount of detail and many steps. There is much more at stake regarding trauma than most would realize. If you take the time to step back and analyze Saturday, it reveals the different components that are involved in traumatic events and how they can affect people differently.
One thing that I did not catch while reading Saturday was the amount of international references that effected Henry Perowne. There were many events that added to Henrys anxiety but worldly issues is what kept him up at night “It is In fact the state of the world that troubles him most” (80). Constantly worrying about world issues can become an obsession and in Henrys case, he fit that description. This concept is tied very closely to the topic of time in Saturday. Aritzi explains that you have a constant sense of time while reading the novel “This is a novel which shows a constant reference to clocks, the reader always knows the time within a few minutes” (130). Time is always moving; however, at some parts of the novel it seems to stand still. A large part of being able to have such a keen sense of time in Saturday is because of the simplicity and the chronology of the events