In five pages this paper examines the 1992 novel by Ian McEwen in a consideration of the narrative, opposites, coincidences, and powerful symbolism it features. Four sources are cited in the bibliography.
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will examine McEwens 1992 novel, Black Dogs for those elements. Co-incidence McEwen feels that it is the coincidences of our lives that shape them. According to Gardner in
a 1998 interview: " I often think that when people talk of coincidences that theyre almost bound to occur because were like so many atoms in a turbulent system or
a gas under pressure. If you lead an averagely busy life, the number of people that you collide with, so to speak, is extraordinary. One could become your husband, or
your wife, or, for that matter, your murderer. That random element in life is a gift to a novelist to make a pattern of it, to make some sense of
it, to contest its meaning or even ask whether theres any meaning to it at all. Thats part of the pleasure and unpredictability of writing a novel itself." In our
novel, Black Dogs, for example, is it a coincidence that June and Bernard meet during wartime when even the very air is already intensely charged? It seemed to the
young couple, that life was intensely charged and might change at any given moment. Would they have cared, and married so quickly for example, if they had first met
in a living room in Nebraska? Opposites Opposites often help us determine what is real, or what is truth. Something as simple as deciding what to eat
for example, will lead us to the comment, well - I know what I dont want - whatever it may be, and therefore I shall have -its opposite, or a
reasonable cousin of its opposite. Look at the opposites in our novel: war and peace, male and female, politics and religion, together and estranged, family and