Blog Entry #10: Classification of Noir

    Two out the four stories that I have read I found very interesting. I believe that from all the Los Angeles stories that I’ve read they all seem to fall under the noir category. The main story that I found that is an example of noir would be Kinship by Brian Ascalon Roley. Mainly I choose this story as a classification as noir just because of what happens at the end of the novel when Veronicas cousin decided to stick in an ice pick into the man that did damage to Emerson. As a proof that I feel that it’s somewhat related to noir would be when in the novel it states ‘I am a father too, I said loudly enough for Manny to hear, and then I reached down and stuck him’ (pg. 317). As for this statement it relates to noir because back then all the violence involved a lot of weapons than today’s time. Even in today’s time there are still weapons involved but not as many as before. The novel that I found difficult to classify as noir was the novel What You See by Diana Wagman. The reason that I had found this novel difficult to classify as noir is because how the narrator wrote it. In the novel What You See it seemed easier to classify it as if it were to be a horror type of novel and being able to visualize it as a horror film by the way the story ended. This novel actually wouldn’t fit with noir. The narrator describes the things and places very well but I wouldn’t classify it as noir.