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White Noise Study Guide

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by Don DeLillo
About 46 pages (13,800 words)
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White Noise Study Guide consists of approx. 46 pages of summaries and analysis on White Noise by Don DeLillo. Browse the literature study guide below:

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This chapter sets the scene of a small town college, where the students are returning to school. The parents look similar and the students perform the same acts that similar students have performed in years past. We are introduced to Jack Gladney, the chairman of the department of Hitler Studies. He has been a professor here for 22 years. Babette is introduced as Jack's wife. She has missed the usual parade of children and the parents' cars as they drop them off for school. Jack explains their relationship and how she tends to their children, teaches about Posture and volunteers to read to the blind. Heinrich, Denise, Steffie and Wilder all come into the picture as well as they sit down for lunch together. This is the very picture of a normal, happy family. However, the smoke alarm goes of... (read more)
      Book 1: Chapter 1 - Chapter 3
      Book 1: Chapter 4 - Chapter 6
      Book 1: Chapter 7 - Chapter 9
      Book 1: Chapter 10 - Chapter 12
      Book 1: Chapter 13 - Chapter 15
      Book 1: Chapter 16 - Chapter 18
      Book 1: Chapter 19 - Chapter 20
      Book 2: Chapter 21
      Book 3: Chapter 22 - Chapter 24
      Book 3: Chapter 25 - Chapter 27
      Book 3: Chapter 28 - Chapter 30
      Book 3: Chapter 31 - Chapter 33
      Book 3: Chapter 34 - Chapter 36
      Book 3: Chapter 37 - Chapter 40

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