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E. L. Doctorow Ragtime United States: Random House Inc. 1994 320 pg. New York in 1906? It was an era where the rich didn’t know what poverty was. An era in which the poor saw threw a glass door how the rich lived. When the first immigrant workers were flowing into America, when the first machines were being used in factories, when many new technological improvements were being made for example the Assembly Line created by Henry Ford. Ragtime is a book that expresses America in the era between the turn of the century and the First World War. The book is written in descriptive long flowing paragraphs with little dialogue. The paragraphs are written in extravagant detail combined with many surprises with unforeseeable ramifications. The genre of the book is historical fiction. Ragtime connects together with intertwining stories from a handful of characters. The intertwining of the stories is done chronologically, every time a conspicuous event takes place the story is shifted towards that area. Doctorow spaced the events in a very decent manner. Each story is given enough space and time for the perfect amount of detailed description, this paints a masterly picture of the scene and conditions in the passage. The voice that is used in Ragtime is narrative. It is a unique type because the narrator seems to be no specific character.
Approximate Word count = 882
Approximate Pages = 3.5
(250 words per page double spaced)
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