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The attorney and the narrator finally get rid of Lucy by paying a cab driver to take her to another hotel. She eventually calls them at the Flamingo but Dr. Gonzo makes up a story to get her off their backs and leave them alone. Right while Dr. Gonzo does this the narrator takes pure Adrenaline. This is the craziest drug any of them have done. They compare it to mescaline and say mescaline is nothing in comparison to this adrenaline. The narrator takes the drug and from then on the novel describes the crazy things he is seeing. Not only does the room change around him but so do the people he encounters. Peoples' appearances completely change proving that this drug can completely change someone's state of mind. Eventually the narrator wakes up with a completely ruined hotel room. He walks around with a tape recorder of what he heard while he was tripping on the many dangerous drugs that he used over the time period. While listening and recollecting the narrator goes through many flash backs and begins to remember his crazy drug experience. It is a miracle that the two were not arrested because they went all around Vegas drugged out of their mind, messing with different people such as Dr. Gonzo screaming at the couples in the car on the Las Vegas strip.

irb -book reveiw (4)

Those that love to read about people's adventures during the 60's and 70's will love Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. This is a story of a journalist who travels to Vegas to cover a race called "The Mint 400". The only problem is he is a doctor of journalism and an event like this has to be covered is all of the correct preportions. To do this he and his attorny get numerous amounts of drugs and alcohol. They arrive at Vegas just in time to cover the story, but that is the last thing that they want to do. The real purpose of their journey is to find the American Dream. They found it alright but when they saw what it really was they said forget it. They go around breaking all kinds of laws and create all sorts of rukkus. It was all in good fun though and nobody really got hurt. Through out this journey they learn many things including never to give a 16 year old girl that you don't know acid. This book was also made into a movie which I plan to watch very soon. I have heard that it is fantastic.

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“They work in pairs,” said my attorney. “Sometimes in gangs. They’ll climb right into your bedroom and sit on your chest, with bowie knives.”(145)

I thought this was a very interesting conversation in the story. It was with the attorney, who is high on several drugs, talking to an oblivious police officer who has no idea that the man he is talking to is a crazy dangerous drug addict. It is instances like this that keeps the story on edge. These two men who are involved with so many drugs are at a police drug conference in Las Vegas. Taking risks is a huge theme in this novel and this is truly shown within this scene.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9Kx_t6ko1k

This is the scene where they arrive at the hotel. They are tripping on acid when they arrive. Raoul actually becomes scared when all of the people turn into reptiles. I think the movie did a good job of portraying this scene from the book.

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"She was not right for us-not in this fragile situation" (Page 115)

This is a great quote to describe how the narrator and now the attorney feel about Lucy. The attorney definitely made a mistake for picking her up because they believe that now they can get caught for drugs and kidnap. They were already doing highly dangerous drugs at a police convention. It was risky enough as it was and now they have to worry about this young girl and if she will complicate their situation even further.

IRB summary- (3)

This section of Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas was extremely exciting but in a much different way than usual. Earlier in the book the characters were just parading around Las Vegas on all different types of drugs. It was exciting to see the different ways they would react to these drugs. The narrator and attorney are reunited and back at it in Las Vegas. They are still doing drugs but the descriptions of their trips aren't as vivid as before. Now the main context of the story is about how they feel about different things. For instance the character Lucy is introduced in this section. She was a nice church girl that happened to get picked up by the attorney and now she is tripping on acid and a complete mess. The characters eventually try to ditch her because they believe she will get them caught by the law.

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" I know, Im guilty. I understand that. I knew it was a crime, but I did it anyway." " Thats a strange attitude" he said.

I thought that this was a very interesting point in the story. This was when the narrator had been driving on his own ever since his attorney left. He was on the run without paying his hotel bill. He had a car full of drugs and was drunk and gets pulled over by a cop. I thought this was strange because right before he was pulled over he had extreme paranoia, but after he gets pulled over he seems to just not care, as the cop pulls up he just stand there leaning against the car with a beer. I don't know whether it was just the narrator just giving up and accepting jail or what hi thought process was. However in this situation, it seems to work because the cop gives him a break and lets him go.