Reading Activity (Activity) Peer Review

This is related to order #00108156. You just need to answer what you think about their answer. I want a detailed answer for each of it and please separate the answer for each person, don't put it in together, thank you.
Require: first answering the question posed by the student and then commenting on one or more of the statements they have provided in one to two short paragraphs. Your comments should move the dialogue forward so that we can have a rich discussion about the novel. Therefore, first, answer the question and then react to a point the student commented on in the post and offer why you think that point is important or how that point speaks to criticism of our culture in some way. Avoid replies that "like" or simply "agree" with a student's post, for these types of replies do not move the dialogue forward in a meaningful way.

Henry Long (He/Him)
2:2opT1. A point of satire that comes to mind for me is when Jack is talking to the nuns in Chapter 39. The nun tells him. "The nonbelievers need believers." and yet the nun. nor any of the nuns in this small clinic, seem to believe in any sort of religious thing. The irony is that they, of all people, should believe in the bible and the afterlife, but instead, just seem to be playing the part of Nuns in a play. As pointed out in the book, the nuns are their for the believers of religion, perhaps they are just props in some play designed to comfort people. The book tears away at this fragment of society, and asks "Why are these structures still around, and who is benefiting from them if everyone is pretending?"
2. While Jack fears death and tries to get past it. or ignore it. or defeat it. Winnie Richards has concerned it by accepting it and seeing it as a finality. Winnie realizes. I think, that Death brings meaning to life because it means life will end. Having an end. makes it so you can't decide to start tomorrow every day or else nothing will get done; having an end. makes it so things are. in fact, urgent, and need to get done or else you might have a meaningless life. In this. I think I agree with Winnie, that is. that death or endings give us urgency and importance that a life you live forever would otherwise lack. Jack is paralyzed by this fear of the end. and thus, leads to an unfulfilling life. Delillo is trying to point out that Americans don’t need to be afraid of death, and in fact, there are other, perhaps more profitable, ways of looking at the world that see death as a gift rather than a curse.
3. Delillo's criticisms are just as common today as they were forty years ago. Delillo thinks modern society is corrupt, waning, and ultimately will lead to a sour, soulless end. This is mirrored today in the thoughts about social media being a fast sort of brain rot. Delillo would agree with many commentators that the constant news cycle and the want for new entertainment and commodity is leading us to be incompetent and needy. Delillo's criticism is relevant today because most of it is a common criticism, however. I do not think that that makes it automatically correct. Through a lens of class struggle, one could argue that it is a culture of commodity and a connection of new things to a status that makes us need these things and that the constant news cycle is a result more of capitalism doing its job than of individuals wanting a 24 hour news cycle.
4. Jack seems to have two significant character struggles throughout the book, one is him trying to figure out who he is. and who he is supposed to be. and the other being his fear of death. Why did Delillo choose for these to be the two defining struggles for Jack, and how do they figure into the bigger themes in the book?

Jazmine Valle Yes:er-sy1. An example of hyperbole I see in the novel is "I watched Murray sniff his utensils. There was a special pallor in the faces of the New York emigres. Lasher and Grappa in particular. They had the wanness of obsession, of powerful appetites confined to small spaces." I think this is ridiculing the aspect of society that is the high class wealthy.
2. When Winnie says this I think she means that death should not be something to be scared of rather something we should realize we need. I think she means that without knowing one day well die some wouldn’t live their lives the way they do. That death gives definition to life and meaning.
3. DeLillo's criticism in White Noise is relevant to today shows how humans process information and entertainment, and that the way humans process information could be harmful someone's mental.
4. What does "How strange it is. We have these deep terrible lingering fears about ourselves and the people we love. Yet we walk around .talk to people, eat. and drink. We manage to function. " (DeLillo 33) what is the point DeLillo is making behind this scene?