Day of the Locusts

This story starts out with kind of a banal feeling to me, it reminds me slightly of the Great Gatsby. Faye Greener sounds like Daisy and both stories share the same kind of lust and has a certain kind of forbidden love affair. Tod Hackett gets caught up in the world of it all he becomes part of his painting the Burning of Los Angela's, waiting to die. The violence draws me back to Candide by Voltaire most disturbing viloent scenes carried out by humankind. The ending scene too is not a happily ever after and Tod does not get the girl.

Ideology

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is a divided country. There is a social order that exists and a clear distinction between the good and bad (wicked), but the Emerald city is located in the center of the country and stand in for a neutral point of view or the capital of this country of Oz. Oz himself is a fake and uses the trick of the eye to elevate himself up into being either feared or well liked, much like many of our own politicians today. Fear is a huge tool that will sway the people into doing almost anything.