Emergency

For this, my final blog post, I will be talking about Emergency. I'll go over the writing techniques that I liked, and why I loved the story. Enjoy.

One of my favorite parts of Emergency was the creative use of flashbacks. In a cliche story, a flashback might come during a time of the main character's realization that something from his past is triggering something in his future. A martial arts master might remember some particular thing about his training while in the final moment of his greatest battle. Bullshit like that. But in Emergency, the flashbacks were scattered all over the story in strange places that didn't really have much to do with the story until the final flashback (which still didn't really have that much to do with the story). It's difficult, sometimes, to even tell where the story is heading, and whether it's in a flashback or in the present. I like that a lot.

I also liked the character development a lot, because it threw me off guard. When we're first introduced to Georgie as the orderly who is scatterbrained and always stealing pills, we get the sense (because of the way the main character talks about him) that the main character is NOT like Georgie. But later in the story, we find out that the main character is pretty much exactly like Georgie. And throughout the story, we find out that Georgie might not be as incompetent as he seems, and may have a gift for surgery/"saving peoples' lives."

In conclusion, this is the worst, most poorly thought-out ending to a blog post that I could've ever thought of. But maybe it's kind of clever. I don't know.