The Activist

The first half of “The Activist” by Renee Gladman was a fast section to read, but it was not a fast section to understand. It skips from the city to the interrogation room to the activists to journalists’ commentary, which made it a bit difficult for me to understand what exactly was going on. After thinking about it for a while, I began to wonder if all the confusion in the book was done intentionally. The reader not knowing what is going on mirrors the people in the book not knowing what is going on. This seems to be some kind of criticism of our own society, where no one is sure who to believe and what is true and who is fighting who.