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 The day of the Locus  It's a book written by Nathanael West. It's set in Hollywood during the Great Depression, this book depicts the estrangement and fears of a varied group who exist at the margins of the moving business, tensions exploding at the end with a riot during a film premiere.                     A scene from the 1975's movie "The day of The Locust" During the development of this blog's entries, I'll be describing Tod Hackett...He's a young man who just left the Yale School of Fine Arts, where he was studying painting to take, a job position in Hollywood. His colleges believe that he's selling out for money, but he's quite confident and believes it's the right decision to take, he wants to paint those who arrived in California to die. At some point in the story, he's described as a lazy person "but he was lazy and didn't like to walk." Later on the story, we knew that he was thinking about quitting painting an

 Starting a new book!  Hello, everybody! This is Alejandro. This is my very first entry in this blog.  Today I'll start reading a new book, Nathaneal West's The Day of the Locust, and I'll be uploading two entries per month, analyzing a specific character such that we can get to know its development during the story. I'll consider its actions, language, thoughts, among other things Stay tuned to my following entries! Blessings.  .