Compare and Contrast
Transcript: Compare and Contrast TWO BOOKS BY THE AUTHOR, CHRISTOPHER MOORE........ A DIRTY JOB ISLAND OF THE SEQUINED LOVE NUN HERE WE GO. A Dirty Job is a book about a normal man, Charlie Asher, who is forced into a not-so-normal job as a "Death Merchant", someone who can see and collect soul vessels, which reside in inanimate objects. Choosing to not collect them would result in the Underworld taking over. I thought this book was very interesting, mainly because the author could turn a story that would normally be a suspense or horror into a vulgur, blunt comedy. The imagery and characterization really stand out the most to me because Moore makes everything so believable. Island of the Sequined Love Nun is a book about a pilot, Tucker Case, who has to flee his home due to an embarrassing accident, and work for a sketchy doctor on a Micronesian island. I liked this book, also for the humor, but for the suspense, too. The story is action-packed, and could also be considered a mystery due to how little we know about the doctor's intentions. AUTHOR CONNECTIONS Most of Christopher Moore's books include some sort of his whacky sense of humor in them, but his he really like this in real life? Yes. If you read his stories, it's very clear that he uses his own dialogue in them, making them that much more unique and funny. It's easy for me to picture Moore in real life talking exactly the same way he does when he's narrating. The conclusion? Christopher Moore is kinda nutty. DIFFERENCES A Dirty Job has a much darker storyline than Love Nun does; it has many supernatural occurances throughout it such as evil "sewer harpies" bent on taking over the world, animals with human souls and mismatched body parts, and hellhounds that protect the main character's daughter, who incedently, can kill whoever she wants by saying the word, "kitty". Because of all this (and more), this book is darker than Love Nun, because Love Nun has a more believable plot, and the only supernatural thing in it is a talking Filipino fruit bat and a ghost that shows up sometimes. The settings of each book are almost the exact opposite of eachother; A Dirty Job is set in the city of San Francisco, and Love Nun is set in the Micronesian Islands, a place that is inept from most of modern society. San Francisco, with its abundance of modern day buses, buildings, and stores, is way different than islands that are considered advanced if their cars have air conditioning and their roads are paved. ""Yap was cleaner than Truk and hotter, if that was possible. Here the beat-up taxis actually had radio antennas to identify them. The roads were paved as well." Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Moore, 55 "That day Charlie Asher climbed onto the California Street cable car for the first time since he was a kid, and hung off the bar, out over the street, holding out the sword-cane as if charging, with Hondas and Mercedes zooming along the street beside him, passing under his armpit just inches away." A Dirty Job, Moore, 102 These two passages show the big differences between the two settings. When talking about how the cabs in Love Nun have antennas, it says "actually", like it's that big of a deal, where in A Dirty Job, people ride on cable cars in the busy, crowded city and it's a normal thing for them. While both stories, because of Moore's style of writing, have their moments of absurdity, Love Nun has less of them. Between the two, Love Nun is the most realistic because of its lack of absurdity. A Dirty Job has many instances in which things that are absolutely unbelievable happen, not only the supernatural things, but the way other people react to said phenomenons. In Love Nun, the main characters and minor characters are more believable. It's mostly because when Moore wrote this story, he'd actually visited the Micronesian Islands. ""As time wore on, Charlie tried to measure the danger of having the giant canines around against the damage that would be done to Sophie's psyche from witnessing their demise, as she was obviously becoming attached to them, so he backed off the more direct attacks on them and stopped throwing Snausages in front of the number 90 crosstown express bus. (This decision was also made easy when the city of San Francisco threatened to sue Charlie if his dogs wrecked another bus.)" A Dirty Job, Moore, 161 "Tuck spooled up the jets as he watched the guards scramble around the Lear. Each time one walked past the nose, Tuck flipped on the radar and chuckled. The microwave energy wasn't enough to boil the guards in their skins, which was Tuck's fantasy, but he could be reasonably certain that they would never have any children and he might have planted the seeds of a few choice tumors." Island of the Sequined Love Nun, Moore, 181 There are instances where there is absurdity in Love Nun, but not as much as in A Dirty Job; Tucker may have some strange fantasies, but they're harmless, and he's not as spontanious as Charlie, who throws his dogs in front
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