Vernon God Little

Explore how DBC Pierre displays his ideas to shock the audience in Vernon paragon Little. Vernon God Little, written by DBC Pierre, is a satirical young based around a massacre at a high school in Texas in which some of the students got possession of a gun and dispatch some of their teachers and fellow students. The novel is about a boy c anyed Vernon who is best friends with the main killer, Jesus. Vernon is framed as an accessory to murder and the story line follows the calibrate fall of his life.There are lots of features of the novel that come across as very shocking to the readers. For example in chapter seven, when Vernon visits a shrink Dr Goosens, he puts full trust into him, because he has a well-known profession. The psychiatrist goes on to violate Vernon which, in a way, makes Vernon loose all trust in every iodine, because if he doesnt feel safe around a doctor, he doesnt know if he will feel safe around anyone. particularly when almost everyone he used to trust has turned against him to try and frame him as an accessory to murder.The passage in chapter seven uses grotesque imagery His eupnoeic quickens with the march of his fingers, they trace a tightening circle around the rim of my hole. and a cool finger invades me. This shocks the readers because it is disturbing and because Dr Goosens is a doctor and is in a position of trust and is not expected to break this trust. DBC Pierre does this because the novel is satirical and he tries to inform the audience that people are not everything they take care and you croupet read a book by its cover. A shocking character in Vernon God Little is the journalist, lally Ledesma.We begin to see lally columns true colours as we progress through the novel as he becomes almost unbearable. At the rootage of the book, Lally is first presented when he is trying to interview Vernon on the massacre. Throughout the novel, he does many shocking things. For example, he uses Vernons mum and builds a descent w ith her, just so he can get on the inside of Vernons life and get a good story on him for the newspapers. Vernon knows that this is what Lally wants, but his mum wont believe him because shes in love with Lally. 1.Ella Bouchard chapter 13, Vernon uses her as a prostitute. 2. Taylor Uses Vernon and sets him up so she can get bullion 3. Mum doesnt care about anything important, just the look, fridges and her friends 4. Shock is to build up the satirical effect, and takes the mic out of america 5. Everyone wants to meet the american dream, 6. At the end, aver if you think it is too shocking or not, and why you think DBC Pierre wrote it like this. 3. Vernons mum has her heart set on reaching the American dream, the dream that everyone is equal, and everyone has a good job, nice house and big happy family.She doesnt want to know about what is happening to Vernon and she is very blase towards it, because all she cares about is what she and her family looks like to her friends and the public. This is shocking to the audience of Vernon God Little because its not something theyd expect to happen. The audience would expect Vernons mum to be worried about her son and trying everything in her power to get him out of jail and out of being taken to court, but instead she is in bed with Lally Ledesma, who is using her, and worrying about what fridge to buy to impress her friends. 6.Overall, I think that Vernon God Little is very shocking. DBC Pierre wrote Vernon God Little in shocking ways for a very important reason. He wanted the audience to realize that everything is not as it seems and society can be out of order at times. He also wanted them to think about if they were following the American dream or whether its all a big lie and theres no such thing. The novel might come across as unbearably shocking, but that is one feature of a satirical novel. The shock helps to reflect the fact that it is just a big joke and is trying to make a joke of American society.