Divine Rights Trip

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A Trip to Remember Gurney Normans’ Novel, “Divine Right’s Trip” is a complex story about a young man, David Davenport, also known as Divine Right and his travels and thoughts while he wandered from the Golden Coast of California to his homeland in the Appalachian Mountains in Kentucky. He starts the journey with his car, a beat up VW Bus named Urge, and his friend Estelle. This trip he takes is not only about his travel, but also his constant drug use and the idea’s that he receives while under the influence as well as his trip among himself, transforming from a young adult in his young twenties, to a full grown man. Norman uses great narration as well as simple story telling to give the reader an insight into D.R’s thoughts, feelings and ideas while maintaining the true purpose of the novel which is to exemplify how D.R comes of age along this trip and comes to embrace his ideas as truth rather than to question them. Normans’ idea of trying to take the reader on a trip themselves while reading the book was accomplished with amazing grace and grandeur. He lets the reader pick apart the details of D.R’s mind. Norman presents the reader with many random and sporadic ideas and thoughts, tells the story as D.R would tell, and this really engrosses the reader and makes them become one with the story. It makes them think, makes them wonder, and makes them feel for D.R and his problems and conflicts. He narrates the story as it is told through D.R’s eyes, in the third person perspective, as if D.R is telling the story himself, but someone else is writing it. His journey starts as a child in his early 20’s. Just a car, his friend, and himself, and it goes on to include the characters he meets along the way, from the Lone Outdoors Man, to the Greek, to his friends in St. Louis after his friend Eddie passes away. It wraps up with no one by D.R’s side but
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