Summary Of Drop City By T. C. Boyle

Boyle, T.C. “Drop City” (November 2016): 3-209 Boyle introduces the two different lifestyles of the people who live in Alaska verus the people who live in Drop City. The characters in this story are all in search of a utopia kind of lifestyle instead of a bourgeois controlled lifestyle. The people in drop city are hippies and believe in free love, unquantified drugs, free food and no rules. The beliefs of the people from Alaska are different including their belief in monogamous relationships. During the story the people from Drop City are pressed to move to Alaska thinking there is nobody living in Alaska. Using Drop City as a resource will allow me to compare, relate and reason the use of drugs and actions of the characters when they are on highs.
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