![]() The acronym is ironic, as the cloud is dispersed when microbes are released to eat it. When the “Airborne Toxic Event” arrives, Jack is exposed and later learns from testing that he has somehow been affected. (I would love to teach this with a John Hughes movie, like Sixteen Candles, and think about how trends, products, and cliches work in each). The bland 1980s and its “white noise” in the form of technology and advertising are recurrent subjects in the novel. Both Babette and Jack are obsessed with death and with discussing who will die first. They have a baby, Wilder, and a number of other children, including the prescient Steffie and the morose Heinrich. He works at The-College-on-the-Hill (perhaps a “city on the hill” reference to the Bible/Kennedy/Reagan) and is married for the fifth time to his fourth wife, Babette. ![]() DeLillo’s zeitgeisty “breakout” novel tells the story of Jack Gladney, a professor of Hitler studies (a department he invented) who can’t speak German.
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