Zen And The Art Of Waking It Analysis
In the novel Zen and the Art of Faking It by Jordan Sonnenblick, San Lee moves to a small town in Pennsylvania, and tries to give himself an identity to fit in at school. To San, school is not a passion. Jordan Sonnenblick illustrates a vivid image of San, and one may think that his childhood life was that of San’s. The author’s perspective is that school is a filthy, boring, and judgemental place to be. It can be shown by his different quotes and how evocative he created San’s point of view. Firstly, Sonnenblick believes schools are filthy. San claims that every school is the same, filthy campus. In the first paragraph of the text, San states that schools “smell exactly the same, because damp lockers, industrial cleaning fluids, and puke