THE BOOK
- Phoney's lust for treasure (in contrast to ahab), starts with no money in his purse... and is still trying to find money throughout the entire book, keeps looking for ways to find treasure (they are both in the first sentence/ pages of each book)
- no time line
- the idea of a search that destroys you
- lost of setting references, waterfall, farm, magical places
- ideas of a force driving from the known and mundane to the new and or mysterious
- the idea of stepping into new territory, and adventure
- not being able to resis the unknown, it draws you in
- voyage
- ahab and a white whale- phoney and home, phoney and money, phoney and power, phoney and status, kingdok and thorn, kingdok and the valley, kingdok and the power, kingdok and the pride, bone and thorn, lucious and briar
- pride (vice rock jack, briar, kingdok) (virtue torn and bone)
JEFF SMITH
- a man's pursuit of something great that they hold a greater passion for
- a writer who's set himself up to create an epic
- smith makes the valley in bone into a place of destiny as Melville makes the sea
- builds on the idea of a great journey as a spiritual and philosophical one
- starting with nothing. questing for something and seeing the process as inherently valuable regardless of the end result
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