Moon Palace essays

Moon Palace essays The central character in Moon Palace Marco Stanley Fogg lost his mother, when he was only a boy and he never had a father so he was raised by his uncle Victor, who also had a very positive influence on him. Marco lost his uncle, while he still were attending college and Marco changed into a careless person after his vital loss, actually the situation of his loneliness had caused a mental transformation which ended with Marco loosing his apartment. After his eviction he lived on the streets for several months and he became totally isolated from society. Marco was selling books, which he inherited from his uncle to finance his living and he was rescued from the streets by his old friend Zimmer from his university days and a young Chinese woman named Kitty Wu. After living with Zimmer, Marco gradually recovered and when he became lovers with Kitty Wu he started to see a purpose with life. Marco eventually managed to find a job as the person in charge for the blind and paralysed Thomas Effing and his main job was to write the story of Mr Effings life. Effing wanted Marco to write his obituary for him, so he began telling Marco all about his life and with these stories he relived that he was a famous painter named Julian Barker. Shortly after the completion of his obituary, Mr Effing died May 12th as he had predicted himself and Marco found Mr Effing son Solomon Barber to hand the notes over to him. Marco also found out after meeting Solomon that he was his father and Effing was his grandfather. When they went to visit Marcoss mother Emilys and his Uncle Victors graves in Chicago, Solomon accidentally fell into an open grave and broke his back. Two month after he died and Marco started walking west after getting his inherited money stolen. The moon has an important role in the book, because it is following the characters in the story. The symbol of the moon is the factor that leads the ...