Humanimal: A Project for Future Children by Bhanu Kapil demonstrates a different style of writing. Most books or novels have a beginning, middle, end, climax, etc. But this book did not consist of any of this; there was no beginning or end. It basically just started and then abruptly ended. Humanimal had no meaning to it; it conveyed this sense of non-meaning to the reader. Meaning is what the reader receives it’s what they take from the reading in other words meaning is seen as the effect of a piece of writing. I will show how the book portrayed this non-meaning message.
When something has purpose or reasoning it usually gives meaning to it. Humanimal had no reasoning or purpose therefore leaving the reader empty handed. It had to do with the way the book was written that made it come off this way. The book was written in broken segments it did not flow into each other. Each part was very individual they were not continuous. She would write about something then stop and start writing about something completely different. One part she is having a conversation with R. and then that section ends and the next section is about her dad’s family and how he was the second oldest which had nothing to do with the previous part. Also another thing that made it very hard to follow and a reason it lost its purpose was the other parts that the book consist of which were so random and different that you never knew what was going on in the story. Making the book so hard to follow and understand is what made it lose its purpose which in the end made it lose its meaning.
You can see where this non-meaning came from when you look at it from the author’s perspective. She was trying to produce something from nothing. For this story is from so long ago that basically all her information if from people that don’t exist anymore. Everything was being passed down and she had to put it all together and when something is passed down person to person again and...